Augmented reality app being 'completely re-engineered'.
Just a day after launching v3 of its Layar Reality Browser for iPhone, Layar has pulled it from the App Store.
Why? According to CTO Dirk Groten, the company received a "flood of complaints" about the new version crashing. In a candid blog post, he's explained the reasons for taking it off sale:
"We had issues already since the very first launch of the iPhone app. Unfortunately these issues were due to bad memory management decisions right from the start, something that we could not easily fix without completely re-engineering the app. There is some old code in there that is buggy and we don’t know exactly where the bug is."
In fact, Groten says that the app only worked fine for 80% of users in its previous iPhone versions due to these problems.
"We've already started re-engineering the app, but this won't be finished in a matter of days, rather a matter of weeks," he writes.
The latest version of Layar is still available on Android Market, so it's just iPhone users who will have to wait for the rewrite.
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