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iTunes Affiliate Linking 19 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
My old post about creating iTunes Affiliate Links has become obsolete with Apple’s announcement of a dramatic improvement in their Affiliate program. They have announced that they will be moving away ...
Aggressive Adoption 14 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Ever since WWDC iOS developers have been struggling with the question of how to handle the transition to iOS 7. Most pressing is the question of which legacy version of iOS to support along with adopt...
» The Forgotten Home of Coffee 1 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am
Fascinating video about the origin and challenges facing the Coffee plant. »
» The App Store Problem Is Not Price 29 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
In the iOS world, there is only one place to buy apps: the App Store. Because there is only one place to buy apps, everyone goes there to find them. Because everyone goes there to find them and the co...
Honest In-App Purchases 24 Jul 2013 | 01:40 am
It is no secret that the vast majority of revenues being made today in the App Store are via consumable based “Free”-to-Play games. These have sat atop the Top Grossing charts for a long time now. Las...
Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing 16 Jul 2013 | 06:01 pm
Since the App Store was first launched 5 years ago (and the Mac App Store in 2011) there has been a continuous thread of discussion asking Apple to provide a direct mechanism for upgrade pricing for a...
Clockwork Updates 7 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
For a while now I’ve been collecting and publishing the iOS version adoption in my Audiobooks apps. Since the introduction of over-the-air updates in iOS 5 the rate of adoption by the general populati...
Feed Wrangler, The First Month 29 May 2013 | 10:12 pm
One month ago I launched Feed Wrangler. Feed Wrangler is an RSS aggregation platform that I’ve been working on since the start of this year. Google killing off Reader forced me to get my act together ...
A History of Selling Out 26 Apr 2013 | 06:56 pm
WWDC 2008 Sold out in 62 days. WWDC 2009 Sold out in 33 days. WWDC 2010 Sold out in 8 days. WWDC 2011 Sold out in 12 hours. WWDC 2012 Sold out in 100 minutes. WWDC 2013 Sold out in 90 secon...
» An Incredible Incomparable 4 Apr 2013 | 05:50 am
This week’s episode of The Incomparable is truly epic. I won’t spoil it by trying summarize it. Just clear the next 47 minutes of your schedule, sit back and enjoy. »
