Ski resorts busted by iPhone app

Blame the iPhone.
What a brilliant deduction?
(The state of the economy has NOTHING to do with people cutting back on fluff expenses.)

Or is it a hit-ho at work?

@Michael. Wow, nice app. Too bad my bum knees keep me from skiing.
(As if I could afford to these days, either!)

In case somebody is interested in regional apps: There's a very nicely done snow report app for Switzerland: http://itunes.apple.com/at/app/snow-report-myswitzerland/id341755817?mt=8

Supports searching for ski resorts near by (via geo location), storing some resorts as favorites to have faster access to them, getting information about weather and slope conditions - and webcams to see what it's currently like (how busy).

The only thing that doesn't make this app the perfect ski information app is in my opinion that it is limited to Switzerland ... because the website behind the app is myswitzerland.com

Apple invented the internet?

What a load of crap. I *may* argue that ski-resorts being held accountable is a good thing? May I? MAY I? Is anyone arguing that it is a bad thing? Fluff article about a fluff article. The intertubes have been showing this data for a lot longer than iPhones have existed. What next, the amazing info that people are able to get messages across the world and back faster than posting a letter all thanks to the the iPhone's email client?

Wow. This is unbelievable. UK publication? And did you even read the article? Numerous references to places in Canada and the US, and it's a UK publication? I expect this sort of thing when Rick Mercer goes down to the states and interviews people on the street, but from a self-professed journal ... oops, I mean blogger?

Worse is the actual story written about the story. It's as if you didn't even read the article itself.

FYI: The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper, not a UK newspaper.

yeah, this seems like a case of confusing the 'i'phone with the 'i'nternet. but whatever... I guess the iphone just made it so people actually use their phone on the internet. So there you go.

Seriously. I wouldn't blame "the ability to lie" for losing sales. There's got to be a lot to be said for: The Crappy Economy; CRAZY EXPENSIVE lift tickets (minimum $45 to almost $100 a day — $600-1500 for a season pass); the uppity attitude at "resorts"; Global Warming/Climate Change causing less snow, the laziness of the average American, etc.

DROP PRICES and they'll do more volume. Simple as that. Don't get me started on $15 cheeseburgers, or an $8 slice of pizza.

I wish I was exaggerating on the prices!

figures mike schramm would be the author of this article

The Globe is actually a newspaper from your other neighbor, Mexico, not the UK. The UK is the country that sits between Arkansas and Wyoming.

The story, and this post, are fluff. No one except grandmothers have called the ski resorts in the past 15 years. There are countless web sites available, including the resorts' own, including live web cams. Not to mention daily announcements on local radio stations and their web sites.

The decline in attendance and perhaps profits is all about the general state of the economy and the tightening of some purse strings when it comes to dropping large coin on leisure activities. A weekend at the slopes can cost as much as a one week vacation in the Caribbean (which also includes a flight). I know which I'd pick first.