Daring Fireball: The Talk Show: 'The Essence of Stealing'

The Talk Show: ‘The Essence of Stealing’

Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.

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Links (which I usually don’t post here in Linked List posts for episodes, but which are exceptionally good this episode):

Weather Up.
- On the App Store.
- Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.
RevenueCat.
Sub Club Podcast.
“How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.
Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).
March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
- Apple Newsroom post.
WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
- Apple Newsroom post.
Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.
Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.
Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.
City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
David, in a blog post from 2011: “Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products”.
David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta’s average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple’s €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.

★ Friday, 1 March 2024