> The biggest issue with the iPhone app is that API requests are made in the main thread, so the GUI locks up. Wow, really? That seems like a major oversight.

> The biggest issue with the iPhone app is that API requests are made in the main thread, so the GUI locks up. Wow, really? That seems like a major oversight. I'm pretty inexperienced in the iPhone development scene, but I know with Android development this sort of thing is strongly discouraged. There's even a mode called "StrictMode" where any file and network access on the main thread will cause a crash instead of hanging.