In a move that has totally taken app experts and critics alike by surprise, the Major League Baseball’s At Bat app for iPhone has not only come out in a new incarnation for the latest upcoming season, this time it is priced at a level that many find utterly impossible to believe: $14.99 for a single download. Even though it is so expensive, it has actually climbed to number 8 on the iTunes charts as proof that baseball’s popularity is alive and well in the United States. In fact, baseball fans will be able to get so much from this particular app that they are gladly paying the price in order to be able to get the streaming audio versions of the games, particularly since the sounds can keep playing while the user does other things on their iPhone. One live video of a game per day are another major incentive for those who have not gone for the MLB.tv package.
A large range of features that will appeal to the sport’s traditionally hard core fan base will also be offered and these range from excellent coverage of the events themselves to actual up to the moment statistics as the season progresses. No blackout restrictions will be placed on the audio and there are different announcers for the home and away sides of the field that are sure to help customers be able to get the view of the game that they are most interested in having. Plenty of supplemental content is expected to be provided, as well.