Matt Gallagher deserves a medal…

Every once in awhile you read a blog post that completely changes the way you think about a problem. Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa With Love is one of those blogs where it happens often. If you’re not subscribing to his RSS feed, do it now. In particular, this post addressed a problem that every iPhone developer […]

A thought experiment

Assume the following: You have an application that you’re selling on the App Store. This application, MyApp 1.0, works on both iPhones and iPod touches with the 2.2.1 firmware. The compelling new APIs in iPhone SDK 3.0 allow you to implement a bunch of great new features in your product. Let’s say you add a […]

Bootstrap

A lot of people stumble upon this website because they’re looking for information about developing applications for the iPhone. If this is your first time here, welcome! I have been developing applications for the iPhone since it was released (using both the Jailbreak and official SDK.) My company is currently selling several applications in iTunes. […]

Ringtone apps

Dear Steve, As an iPhone developer who’s been in the App Store since its launch, I’m starting to see a trend that concerns me: developers are lowering prices to the lowest possible level in order to get favorable placement in iTunes. This proliferation of 99¢ “ringtone apps” is affecting our product development. Unlike a lot […]

Choices

A friend of mine recently commented that native Twitter applications are the new flashlights. It’s true, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise: consider the number of web apps that proliferated before the advent of the native SDK. Personally, I welcome this competition. Seeing the work of other developers whose work I respect and admire […]