For those of you who have been reluctant to give Spoke a spin, a limited free version is now out on the App Store. Give it a whirl, give us some feedback!

We have some new features in the works as well as some optimizations coming up. Apparently Spoke actually runs slower on OS3 than on OS2.2.1, and this is something we are working hard to diagnose and address.

UPDATE: We tracked down the issue with OS3, and Spoke will soon be running much faster on an iDevice near you.

For the developers out there: using NSTimer to frequently trigger a UI update on the main thread is a bad idea. For some reason detaching a new thread that sleeps often yet still performs the UI update on the main thread leads to huge performance gains. Anyone know what’s going on under the hood that makes this so?