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Foursquare & Gowalla Update iPhone Apps at the Same Time

By Chad Catacchio Follow Chad Catacchio on twitter on March 10th, 2010

So Foursquare’s and Gowalla’s updated iPhone Apps have been released at almost the exact same time – and right in time as promised for SXSW – we wonder if this is some inside joke at Apple or something?

UPDATE: Foursquare’s update is now the new v1.7. Below is a picture we took of the update page in the App Store, and check out our side-by-side UI review of both Foursquare’s and Gowalla’s updates.

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Chad Catacchio

Chad Catacchio is a lead writer at The Next Web. He has held management positions at a number of tech companies in the US, as well as 7 years in China in market research and tech management consulting. Follow him on Twitter @chadcat, or contact through email at chad@thenextweb.com.

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  1. lawrence coburn says March 10, 2010
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    Yeah, weird. The settings on my newly downloaded 1.7 version still say 1.6.1. Seems like a glitch – this is not the full update that we saw a glimpse of a few days ago.

  2. trappermark says March 10, 2010
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    Yeah, I think this is another unintended release. Update screen in app store says “Brand new interface!” but nothing is new.

  3. Chad Catacchio says March 10, 2010
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    v 1.7 is now live – I now have it installed on my iPhone.

  4. trappermark says March 10, 2010
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    Strange. I did the update, but still have 1.6.1

  5. trappermark says March 10, 2010
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    OK, this time instead of going to the Update section on my iPhone, I downloaded from Foursquare's main entry in the app store, and I got the new version.

  6. Michael Pucher says March 10, 2010
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    Any information on android updates?

  7. Chad Catacchio says March 10, 2010
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    Thanks for the tip.

  8. Chad Catacchio says March 10, 2010
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    We're looking into it. Will update if/when we find out.

  10. mcmost1 says March 11, 2010
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    grrr – we need these chic updates for the @blackberry

  11. Marry Watson says March 12, 2010
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    Well for me and all non-iPhone users, I think 4square is definitely the way to go. Gowalla is missing out on the whole market of mac-haters. Gowalla is fun, if you're so bored you want to play games with yourself, but 4square seems much more useful. Gowalla does has a cool design, thanks to it being from Austin a traditionally hip/trendy design/web city, but 4 square is more practical.

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