Another installment in the iPhone App Developer Spotlight series, this time it’s a young woman who is also busy working on her graduate degree in philosophy (of all things), an inspiring example for other female coders who are thinking about the opportunity presented by the App Store...
Q: You wrote 2 Across. How long did it take you? How many lines of code is the program?
It took about 4 months to get it ready for the initial release, and since then I’ve done another 2 months’ work on improvements and updates, and it’s still a work in progress. It’s a little over 10,000 lines of code, and written in Objective C.
Q: The iPhone Software Development Kit has been written about quite a bit, but I’d like to know your opinion: was it easy to get up to speed with this SDK? Is it sufficiently complete that you weren’t stumped as you developed your application?
Yes, I found it pretty straightforward to get up to speed with th...
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When it comes to smart phones, without the iPhone there would have been zero growth in the segment last quarter and the force driving Apple’s latest world beater is the AppStore and software.
The latest killer application—my list includes Sol Free (solitaire), FaceBook, AOL Radio and Google Earth—to hit the App Store is [...] ... more
Since its launch earlier this year, the iTunes App Store has boasted all manner of success stories, but none come close to that off Internet radio generator, Pandora. While the Web-based version of the site had, by some accounts, fallen behind more feature-rich sites like Last.fm and Slacker, Pandora’s iPhone counterpart has been doing gangbusters.
Pandora has become the most popular iPhone app, having registered its 2,000,000th user, as of yesterday morning .
We got a sneak pre... more
Apple’s App Store has finally given developers the ability to release up to 50 promotional codes for their applications, allowing them distribute their apps to press and friends free of charge directly through the App Store.
While the feature may seem like a minor addition to most people, it will be a boon for developers looking to help spread the word about their new applications. Before now, developers looking to share their application with the press or friends would need to inc... more
The New York Times published a quite critical op-ed piece from well-known economist Tom Friedman (author of the best-selling book The World Is Flat , among others) entitled GM keeps the gas flowing and U.S. soldiers in danger [link points to Deseretnews.com’s reprint].
A few pithy quotes:
"Is there a company more dangerous to America’s future than General Motors? Surely, the sooner this company gets taken over by Toyota, the better off our country will be."
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He’s not my doppleganger, and as far as I know we aren’t related other than by Google, but when I had the chance to interview well-known game developer Dave Taylor, I couldn’t resist. Here’s our interview, and I hope you enjoy our witty banter...
The Other Dave Taylor, Gamer Q: Okay, you clearly stole my name or we’re twins of different mothers or something. How’d you get into the game industry when I ended up in the more boring world of business t... more
Let me get this straight. Infront Sports & Media , the company that owns the broadcast rights to the most popular sporting event in the world, the 2006 FIFA World Cup , is trying to protect its digital interests by having its law firm, the massive Baker & McKenzie , send out pre-emptive warnings to very popular Web sites about the copyright of said content, and the blogosphere is already turning on the attack?
Exhibit A: Consider this sophomoric response by Mark Frauenfelder, part of th... more
My friend and colleague Debbie Weil reports that 49% won’t use blogs in the next year according to Forrester Research . 49% of whom? Of "interactive marketers", that is, marketing professionals who include the online world in their campaigns and efforts. She’s surprised that the figure is so low, but I look at it differently: I’m surprised that it’s so high, actually.
Debbie says: "I maintain that blogs are really just next-generation Web sites. Every co... more
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