Update to last week’s big “developer leaving iPhone apps” story Apple reverses its decision and lets Rogue Amoeba’s app in with Apple imagery. Apple’s Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process Apple officially responds to criticisms about the App Store approval process. Paul Graham on Apple’s treatment of the dev community Respected developers begin fleeing from [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Five Tips for Producing a Demo Video for Your iPhone App
Guest author Aaron Kardell runs Performant Design and created the iGarageSale app. One of the best ways to showcase your application’s functionality is to produce a great video. A video is one of the few opportunities potential customers will have to experience your application before buying it. And, a great video is an important key [...]
This Week in iPhone News – November 20/2009
App Store dejection process – now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock The App Store rejection process has been causing some long time Mac developers to decide to no longer develop for the iPhone. Reaction and analysis from Jeff LaMarche, John Gruber and Neil Mix. While Rivals Jockey For Market Share, Apple Bathes In Profits Apple [...]
Podcast Interview With iPhone Wax Creator Corey Johnson
This interview is with Corey Johnson, creator of iPhone Wax. iPhone Wax is an open-source project that lets developers build native CocoaTouch based applications using Lua. Lua’s an expressive scripting language with dynamic language features familiar to Ruby and Python developers. The interview includes content on iPhone Wax’s genesis, the Lua language, embedding and bridging [...]
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This Week in iPhone News – November 13/2009
App Store Takes Tiny Step Toward Transparency An update to the iTunes Connect site for iPhone developers now shows more information regarding the status of your submission to the App Store. Google Mobs AdMob Big news this week with Google acquiring AdMob. Apple to Launch Verizon Phone in Q3 2010 News that may be music [...]
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Speaking at Mobile Portland This Thursday
I’ll be speaking about developer run iPhone businesses at the Mobile Portland meeting this Thursday at 6pm. I’ll be in town for my Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop. It’s always fun to get together with other iPhone devs and we’ll likely go for drinks after the speech. Event details/RSVP here.
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App Store “Released Date” Lists Now Omitting Updates
Apple, it appears, has changed the selection criteria for inclusion in the Release Date lists. Updated apps are no longer included. Previously apparent policy changes to the App Store — e.g., the apparent disappearance of game sub-categories — turned out to be either bugs or experiments and were quickly rolled back. Releasing regular updates to [...]
This Week in iPhone News – November 6/2009
Ari’s ill. If only there were a novelty app that pretended to detect swine flu so we could diagnose him! Here are a few news items to tide you over until he returns next week. Two part Droid-vs.-iPhone series at MobileCrunch. Compares 25 features on the two phones — don’t expect an iPhone sweep! Most [...]
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Supersized 360iDev Podcast, Feat: Chris Heintz, Mike Clark, Jessica Kahn, Jake Behrens, Peter Bakhirev
The final of our two 360iDev conference podcasts, this episode features interviews with: Chris Heintz of Triple Point PR – 01:00 – The PR story behind geoDefense, targeting “previews and reviews,” developer as PR voice, picking a PR agency, how you pay for PR, how an indie beat Madden and I Am T-Pain. Mike Clark [...]
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