Marc Pampols

laCaixa was one of the first spanish bank to introduce an iPhone optimized website some months ago (maybe a year or more... can't remember exactly) and it was a great version of "Linia Oberta", where you can do the most common operations and play with your money.

Right now web access still works, but today we were surprised with the launch of a native iPhone application available in the Apple AppStore!

Welcome screen

My expectations were very high until now, after testing the application, I can say that it's completely useless because using the original optimized website is fastest!

If you made a native application, you can't show a single index with nothing more than simple links to the rest of the original website (links that open a new Safari window! omg) the only native part is the office listing, with a Google Maps integration.

Received ratings

The 9 5-stars reviews where the first ones, of course (surprisingly...)

Very bad move guys, you know you can do it much better, so do not disappoint us next time!

That is an another strange thing I have experienced today, and I think that i'm not the only one...

This morning I was listening to a song on my car radio and I wanted to use Shazam to recognize the title and author, then I opened the application, and 2 seconds later... was shut down automatically, so I tried again and again and did the same thing, I was not able to run it, nor any application purchased in the AppStore, and even with a hard-reset!

The solution? reinstalling again all the apps, and then, it worked.