Benoit Maison from the image analysis company Vision Smarts — producers of the the barcode image to price comparison app pic2shop — wrote us to provide some data about consumer upgrades to 3.1. The chart shows that, already, 40% of users are on 3.1. The data is calculated from pic2shop users. Maison says their user [...]
Archive | September, 2009
No-Strings Free 360iDev Ticket. Also: Reopened OpenGL Class Earlybird Pricing.
Fernando Barajas, creator of Skatr, the iPhone app and website for discovering new skateboarding spots, has a ticket to the 360iDev Conference (Denver, 9/27-9/30) that he can’t use. Fernando’s a generous guy: he’s giving the ticket away. No silly contests or gimmicks. Just leave a comment here with a real email address; first one gets [...]
Area Code 408? Pick Up The Phone!
Guest author Aaron Kardell is the author of the iGarageSale app. This post originally appeared in his blog. Have an article to share with our readers? Contact us! At 8:45 Monday night, I received a call from an unrecognized number with a 408 area code. As a general habit I do not answer unrecognized calls [...]
MonoTouch: Native iPhone Apps In C#
Novell and the Mono team — the folks behind the popular OSS/alternate platform .NET and Silverlight implementations — have released MonoTouch. Using MonoTouch, programmers can write native iPhone applications using C#. I spoke with Mono Project founder Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill, Mono’s product manager, about the project, the audience, the programming model and [...]
This Week in iPhone News – September 11/2009
Background Location Finds a Loop(t)hole On The iPhone Loopt strikes a deal with AT&T to provide “always-on location service” for its new iPhone application. App Sales Machine Google App Engine based hosted app sales reporting. Free and OSS. 6 Flickr iPhone Apps That Yahoo Just Killed With the recent release of Yahoo’s official Flickr application [...]
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An Alternate To The App Store Without Jailbreaking
Visualize the population of iPhone owners. There’s a lot of them, so you’ll need an abstraction: picture them filling the seats of a sports arena. You’re at the center of the playing field looking out at them. This is a high-tech stadium: you can arbitrarily move seats and arrange the people without any hassle or [...]
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Jobs Site At 7 Days: 15 Gigs, Big Brands, Coast-to-Coast and International
A week ago I launched our Free iPhone Jobs Board. In case you missed it: it’s free to post but all gigs are screened before being published. To qualify, the ad must be for a position/that is primarily iPhone related, have a budget that supports market rates, and they must have experience working with developers. [...]
iPhone Dev Drinks: Thurs In San Diego
Join me for drinks tomorrow/Thursday at 8:00pm at Karl Strauss in Sorrento Mesa. I’ll be in San Diego doing a dress rehearsal with Noel Llopis on his iPhone OpenGL class and, well, I’m social. Email me or call (612) 423-3694 to let me know you’re coming.
This Week in iPhone News – September 04/2009
Apple Has Officially Opened Up Chinese Market for the iPhone Apple and China Unicom have struck a three-year deal for the iPhone in China for an estimated 1.2 billion people market. Xcode Tools for Snow Leopard Does Not Include iPhone SDK Tips on getting up to speed with iPhone development after you’ve upgraded to Snow [...]
Mobile Orchard Jobs Board: iPhone Jobs & Contract Gigs. Help-Wanteds Free, But Must Pass Muster.
People want to hire you and, for a while now, they’ve been emailing me about it. I thought it best that they be able to tell you directly. With that in mind: I’m pleased to announce the launch of our Free iPhone Jobs & Contract Gigs Board. Pairing targeted help-wanteds and popular, topical sites that [...]
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