OPIS or Oil Price Information Service recently announced that they have a new service that would work on Apple Inc.’s iPhone. The application called iGas will help gas consumers to know where they could buy the cheapest fuel in the country.
According to Michael Sinsky, the CIO of OPIS, the platform from Apple Inc. has changed the game for all the consumers when it comes to shopping or bargaining for the best prices on services as well as goods. That is why they have rendered the iGas to the public.
The iPhone users who want to have their tanks filled-up would simply touch the icon of the iGas in theirdevice so that the GPS system of the iPhone will locate their current position. After a few seconds, the application will give at leat 10 results on where they could find the gasoline stations that has the cheapest prices near their area. The prices were displayed from the cheapest to the highest price. It also has the brand and the address of the station as well.
Fred Rozell said that iGas and the iPhone is the perfect epitome of the data and technology marriage which would allow the users to gain control about their fuel expenses. Rozell is OPIS’s Director of Retail Pricing.
iGas can be downloaded from the app store.
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