By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: November 16, 2008
Sunday, 16 November 2008
- Open Radar ★
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Wolf Rentzsch on the nascent Open Radar — a mirror of third-party developer bug reports sent to Radar, Apple’s internal (and non-public) bug database. Worth keeping an eye on.
- My Journey to Tweetsville ★
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Ed Voas on the story behind Tweetsville, the clever new $4 Twitter client he wrote (but which he sold to Tapulous, because he’s going back to work for Apple):
For the next few weeks I worked pretty much 24/7 getting things to cache properly, push things off onto threads as much as possible, use a real database, etc. and make sure that things just worked correctly. Despite the simplicity of what Twitter is, making an application to really behave properly and ensure that things are always as you expect is pretty darn hard. Even something as ’simple’ as clicking a tweet and then iterating your tweets with the up and down arrows in the upper right was interesting. Not because of the iteration of the items, but because you now have yet another view that needs to be aware of state changes in the application. For example, if you favorite something, I needed to make sure that if it was showing elsewhere in the UI the change was reflected. Good times.
- How to Price Your iPhone App Out of Existence ★
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Thoughtful analysis from Andy Finnell on App Store pricing.
I agree with him completely that prices under $5 just aren’t feasible for developers who wish to make a full-time living selling iPhone software. The problem with prices at $10 and above, however, is that the App Store doesn’t make demo versions or trial periods possible, nor is there an official refund policy.