AT&T Success Still Linked to iPhone The iPhone continues to bring new customers to AT&T, even though its exclusivity is fading. The Problem With iPhone Killers Inside the App Economy A good summary on how far the App Store has come and how it is changing the marketplace. Easily Share Your Favorite Selection of iPhone [...]
Archive | October, 2009
This Week in iPhone News – October 23/2009
Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s Squirrel Project Revealed A new external attachment for the iPhone which turns it into a credit card point-of-sale device from the founder of Twitter has recently been announced. The App Store Effect: Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion? A discussion on how prices for iPhone versions of existing applications and games [...]
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Gift This App, Apple!
Synopsis: The iTunes Store features a “Gift This Song” capability. The App Store does not feature a “Gift This App” capability. It should. Update: It does now! In Q1 of this year, I wrote the Wheels App to address an oft-lamented problem: most apps in the store are invisible. As most of us now know, [...]
Screencast: iPhone Provisioning: Running Development Code On Your iPhone — $5
Spend Hours With The Docs Or < 10 Minutes With This $5 Screencast Downloaded over 1,700 times! It’s a hassle getting development code running on an iPhone. There are lots of moving parts, all of which have to come together perfectly in order to deploy to your own iPhone. By walking dozens of new developers [...]
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Supersized 360iDev Podcast, Feat: Matt Drance, Kendall Gelner and Greg Yardley
This podcast, the first of two, features interviews with speakers/presenters from the 360iDev conference. I speak with: Matt Drance — 01:00 — Matt left Apple, where he worked as an evangelist and one of the primary planners for WWDC, to found Bookhouse, an iPhone application development firm. Matt gave the opening keynote at the conference. [...]
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This Week in iPhone News – October 16/2009
In App Purchase Now Available for Free Apps Huge news that should make waves in the App Store. iPhone SDK Development Recommended reading. Book available in eBook or paper book formats. Tweetie 2 The popular Twitter client “Tweetie” for the iPhone has been reinvented. Try it today. Ansca Early Adopter Program Latest beta of Corona, [...]
App Store Heresies: Higher Price, Better Ratings. Don’t Discount Your App At Launch.
Lower your price, lower your ratings. Lower ratings, lower social proof. Lower social proof, lower sales. That’s my theory, and I’ve got data to support it. I’m a pattern matcher. I like extracting the hint of a signal from noise. For a while now, I’ve had a hunch that pricing an app higher would lead [...]
Bay Area OpenGL iPhone Class: Nov 19-20. “Regular Reader” Discount
Mobile Orchard’s iPhone OpenGL Programming Training Class is coming to Cupertino, CA on November 19-20. Taught by gaming industry veteran and iPhone indie game developer Noel Llopis, this two day class is specifically designed to teach Cocoa-Touch/UIKit iPhone programmers how to create high-performance, 2D and 3D OpenGL applications on the iPhone. About The Class The [...]
This Week in iPhone News – October 9/2009
Today is Mobile Orchard’s First Birthday. Flash On The iPhone Roundup: Flash for the iPhone Adobe announced that developers will be able to translate Actionscript into ObjC that can run on the iPhone. Louis Gerbarg provided a detailed dissection of the Flash-generated iPhone ipa files Flash Lands on the iPhone at Wired. Authoring iPhone Apps [...]
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Happy 1st Birthday Mobile Orchard
Today is Mobile Orchard’s birthday! Like a father gushing about his kids, I’m going to share a little of the story of Mobile Orchard. I’ll also share some stats about the site, and talk about the challenges and opportunities of making a living blogging for a community of developers. On October-1 of last year Apple [...]
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