The Talkingbass App was a short-lived app for IOS and Android that allowed access to all of the site features on a mobile device. However, we ran into problems with Apple and Google.

They now insist that ALL apps must have in-app purchases and declared that the courses you use in the app must be purchased through the app store (as in-app purchases). That’s bad enough, but to make things even worse, they take a large percentage of the revenue from any in-app purchases.

When I first added the app to the store you could release it as a free app. You had to jump through hoops to allow a free app to be published but it was possible. This is not possible anymore. There must be at least one in-app purchase.

So I complained and argued but, in the end, they removed the app from the store. The app’s still work for anyone that has it installed but with reduced functionality. It will eventually cease to operate with future OS releases.