we said there would be ups and downs

...and so there is!

A little miscommunication with the brief and/or misunderstanding.  So far the phone app has been written with the assumption of a data connection (wifi or edge or 3g) whereas my intention was always to have the iphone app work offline and only connect when submitting an estimate.

I figured this may create an issue with making sure the webapp and iphone had the same data in terms of categories etc, the coding guys said they use the same data which is when the penny dropped, they have it always connecting.  This may be the way we go now that we are down the road some, but with an update to v2 for offline use and data syncing. 

My only argument against this is that if we intended it to be always connected then we would have written an iPhone web app, not a desktop webapp and iphone app.  The guys have been very good about it and are looking into possibilities of making it work offline then sending info to the webapp.

Other than this 'DOH!' moment we have been rigorously testing and amending and testing and amending and it is looking very cool in its own right purely as a desktop web app, these guys have me impressed with their speed and ability and we are thinking of them for one or two other future projects we have on the boil.