Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Four years of iPhone…

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Here’s an excellent infographic form Mashable charting how life has changed since the arrival of the first iPhone. Hard to believe it’s only been 4 years!
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Mobile Market Share Feb 2010

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Here’s a great infographic from icrossing. This map shows the popularity of different mobile browsing platforms country by country, with some interesting results. (more…)

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iPhone Developer News and Announcements

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

You can now subscribe to a new RSS feed for iPhone Developer News and Announcements, meaning developers can stay up to date and receive valuable information on a wide range of topics. (more…)

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In-App purchasing for free apps.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

It is now possible to use In-App Purchase within free apps to sell content, subscriptions, and digital services on the iPhone.

This is great news as it means we can simplify development by creating a single version of an iPhone app that uses In App Purchase to unlock additional functionality, eliminating the need to create Lite versions of apps.

Using In-App Purchase in apps can also help combat some of the problems of software piracy by allowing verification of In App Purchases.

Some good Q&A…

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Adobe brings Flash apps to the iPhone

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Adobe Systems has come up with a way to let developers write Flash applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, even without the support of Apple.

Adobe has been trying to work with Apple for more than a year to get its Flash Player software running on Apple’s products, but has said it needs more cooperation from Apple to get the work done. It has now come up with something of a work-around.
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App Store Approval Process

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Here’s a great post by Joe Hewitt, the Facebook iPhone developer, arguing that the approval process on the App Store is not scalable (Apple has 40 or so full-time reviewers (according to the the FCC docs)).  Hewitt built the original web version of the Facebook app for the iPhone in a time when there were no other native third party apps.

http://joehewitt.com/post/innocent-until-proven-guilty/

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iPhone Business Models

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The business model for small independent developers hoping to self-publish is clear; think of a great idea, build it, test it and submit it to the AppStore. However, what if you’re a distributor or a rights holder looking to publish applications or games, how do you take advantage of the opportunities that the iPhone offers?
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iPhone Photography

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Here’s a great example of what can be achieved using the iPhone built-in camera.

http://www.chasejarvis.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=5&a=0&at=0

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Open Learning

Friday, April 24th, 2009

I’ve been watching the excellent CS193P lectures at Stanford over the last week. The lectures are also available through iTunes U, and have unofficial Twitter and Google Groups followings.
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Going Mobile…

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I’ve recently been working with a games developer looking to translate some of their titles to different mobile platforms. Part of this work has involved developing an online showcase of their work, viewable on mobile browsers.
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