Now that I’ve covered some of the technical issues with background processing for iPhone applications, let’s take a look at why it’s a bad idea from the user’s point-of-view. Assume that Apple changes their mind about background processing tomorrow–anyone can do whatever they want in the background. All the naysayers rejoice, and in a year’s […]
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Unless you’ve been stranded on a remote Pacific isle, you’re no doubt aware of the current furor over third party iPhone applications not being able to run in the background. To be blunt, I’ve never seen so many experts without a fricken’ clue. If you haven’t written code using the jailbreak tool chain, your opinions […]
The big day has come and passed. And you know what? We’re still in uncharted territory: for most of us Mac developers, the App Store is something new and strange. Let’s start by looking at Apple’s cut in the deal. Is 30% reasonable? My first impression was that it seemed a little high, but acceptable. […]
It occurred to me the other day, that the music industry and software developers are beginning to have a lot in common. The proliferation of digital content, both legal and illegal, has radically changed the way people purchase music. But to those of us who have been distributing our work via the Internet since day […]
The iPhone technical specifications mention nothing about how much RAM is included nor how fast the CPU is running. Now that I have a toolchain, it was a simple task to take some code from iPulse to investigate. Note: Apple has obviously not documented the system level APIs that I’m using to extract this information, […]