Finally have been able to track down the issues that cause CraigSearch to crash during launch or freeze at the opening screen.  They’re entirely connected to “barely there” networks.  I can only reproduce this if I am in the basement stairwell of my building, standing halfway through the door, close to the ground.  It’s the only spot I can reliably get 1/2 a bar of Edge network.

I think this can also occur (based on reports, and first hand witness) when a network switches from one version to another, i.e. WiFi to Edge, or if there is incredibly high latency (regardless of the number of network bars you have).  Essentially the network is present but nobody is home.  So, I’m re-arranging things to make the launch process a little more tolerant of this.  I don’t think this is something I can entirely eliminate, but 1.0.2 should make it better.  Hopefully that will go to Apple this weekend.

Thanks for everyone who has written in or posted/chatted to me about this problem.  After 1.0.2 the next update will have some new features (yay)!

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