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Taxi Professional 4.2.3 released

The new minor version of Taxi Professional has also been released with a better handling of a sequence of reservations.

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Progress in the Android version of Taxi Professional

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As announced, I am busy at porting Taxi Professional to Android to follow the overwhelming requests of taxi drivers all over the world. In particular a number of hurdles have been overcome, including the handling of the settings, localization, http requests and Json parsing, the state machine for the bookings and more. The main points to be still covered, before submitting the app, are maps and in-app billing, the latter possibly to be handled by PayPal. I plan to complete everything by the end of the month.
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New review on AppPicker for Taxi Professional

A new review has been published for Taxi Professional on the AppPicker web magazine:

Taxi Professional app review: a professional tool for drivers
18 Aug 2014 Reviews rss subscribe
Introduction
If you own your own cab and are looking for a way to professionally log and keep track of your work log, we've got an app for you. The Taxi Professional app can be used on your iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone and not acts as a professional tool but can save you money from having to pay a broker service, returning to your parking lot unnecessarily, and more. The app is able to map out the shortest most cost-effective route to your pick-up point. It’s all about making you as efficient as possible so you can be organized and profitable. [...]
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New Version of Taxi Professional submitted

A minor update to Taxi Professional has been submitted. This update resolved a problem hampering the possibility of handling several reservations in a single session.
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Taxi Professional 4.2.2 delivered

The new 4.2.2 version of Taxi Professional has been released by Apple and it is not available for the free update by the authorized users. The new version is focused on the improval of the taxi positioning now also available in background and the system used depends on the plugging of the device. This is the change-log in brief:

Improved messaging and error reporting.
Once unplugged the low energy localization is used in background, while plugging the iPhone enables the more powerful GPS background localization.

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How the competion of taxi apps helps the city life

An article by the NYTimes illustrating how the Taxi apps, however in competition, contribute to the welfare of citizens:
Over the next few years, if Uber and other such services do reduce the need for private vehicle ownership, they could help lower the cost of living in urban areas, reduce the environmental toll exacted by privately owned automobiles (like the emissions we spew while cruising for parking), and reallocate space now being wasted on parking lots to more valuable uses, like housing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/technology/personaltech/with-ubers-cars-maybe-we-dont-need-our-own.html
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New version 3.3 of Taxi Professional submitted

We have the pleasure to inform the taxi drivers hosts to this blog and fan pages that the new 7.3 version of Taxi Professional has been submitted to Apple for approval. Here follows the changelog:



  • New Apple turn-by-turn library adopted instead of the old third party one for a better reliability and efficiency in the drawing of paths. 
  • Now the booking notifications include the address of the user requesting the service and, if the user decides so, also the destination so to the able to be informed without taking your hands out of the wheel.
  • If present, the foreseen destination is entered as the default. 
  • 64 bits support. 
  • Full iOS 7.2 support including the return of the disabled icon in the alerts.
  • The controller lever slides bottom why while driving for establishing an added security level.
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Transfer to Aruba successful

arubaI have the pleasure to inform the guests of this site and the users of the app that the transfer of the site to Aruba has been performed with success. SO we are all ready for a new wake of updates most probably fist affecting the app for our taxi fellow driver users of the sister app Taxi Professional.
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Why the only competitor of Taxi Professional may be Uber: an answer to a comment

I 'spiritually' believe more in competition than in cartels. The Taxi Professional option is to allow taxi drivers to keep different applications on their devices without paying a dime for it nor leave their credit card or other. Then they might decide which one brings about more clients and possibly dump the rest.
In fact Taxi Professional is not a dumb client-service app like Uber and the nearly total number of other taxi reservations apps. In fact the client apps in the suite:
 In Arrivo HDin Arrivo Express & Share & Spare offer much more than reserving taxis! In the last case it primarily offers the possibility of sharing walking, car and taxi trips with other users, in addition to reserving taxis; as for the other apps they are also routinely used in Rome and Milan - and progressively elsewhere when local transit companies offer the needed apis -  for checking the waiting times for the buses and nearby stops, and to know how to reach a location by public service and much more, again in addition to reserving taxis.

My opinion is in fact that 
no dumb client-server app may beat Uber, and its big pockets, also holding the Google's money. Users do not simply open their apps without being remembered of doing it, and in fact Uber routinely appears in magazines, VIPs' reports and elsewhere!

As said 
Taxi Professional is different, because users would not need to start the app just to reserve a taxi.

Il 29/03/2014 19:59, Palm Beach Taxi ha scritto:
Hello!
GETRIDE has a new approach to the APP market.Instead of having an UBER corner drivers and worldwide dispatch they are working on a new model of partnering with all drivers from all cities (where UBER is only looking at big ticket markets and taking away individual company identity by in effect creating an omnipotent UBER FLEET.)
not good for anyone. 

Just as GETRIDE has the vision to join small operators in all markets to provide great seamless service...maybe app providers in different markets can form a partnership as well.

No one can do it all. That's why partnering small companies and global regional app providers will win this horserace.
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