There’s been some chatter going around (spawned by Brent Simmons) about whether it’s possible to run a business solely on the profits of selling an iOS app in the App Store. Here’s my two cents on why the low price of apps is hurting our ability to promote them. Fall Day Software’s two main apps, […]
Will Apple ever make a hybrid tablet / desktop computer? Traditional mouse and keyboard user interfaces don’t work well on touchscreen devices, and apps designed for touch don’t work well with a traditional user interface. They are fundamentally different, so much so that Apple decided, back when first designing the iPhone, to build a completely […]
I get the “Age of Contextâ€. I get the desire to share the stuff you’re doing, the stuff you’re creating, even if it’s fairly mundane. I have a PS4, and I like that Sony thought sharing was so important that they put a Share button on every controller. It’s easy to take the last few […]
Why not, here’s my WWDC wish list. Some way of sharing files between apps. Not necessarily a file system, but a way of making a file or folder visible to another app. Add file upload support to WebKit. Sometimes users need to create a file in an app, and then upload that file to a […]
Brent Simmons wrote a bit on how common back-end services should be a solved problem by now.  I agree 100%. I proposed something like this when I was at Adobe, when Adobe was trying to build Flash as a platform (which would also have the same sort of requirements), and couldn’t get them to bite […]
I’m sorry to hear you didn’t get a WWDC ticket. (I didn’t get one either). But look at it this way:  even if you’re still planning to go to San Francisco for the week, that’s $1,599 that you won’t be spending on the conference ticket. It’s hard to watch all the WWDC videos.  It’s a […]
Brent’s post on API Design and the Main Thread kind of rankles a bit because I see this differently. The main thread is special, yes, but to me it’s special in that you should stay off it unless you have a good reason to be there. The main thread is where responsiveness happens. When your […]
Marco Arment linked to an article by Lukas Mathis which largely talks about creation on mobile devices. Lukas uses producing a resume and cover letter for a job application as an example of where one might find the job frustrating given iOS’s limitations. I build and sell the app Resume Designer, an easy way to […]
I’ve switched one of my apps over to using CocoaLumberjack for logging, so that I can redirect logging to a file on disk, and then when I need to upload a crash log to HockeyApp, I can include some recent log data.  Often this is invaluable in figuring out what really went wrong. I’m working […]
I spent some time over the last couple of weeks playing with Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X.  These are Apple’s Pro apps.  They’re a good place to look if you’re trying to figure out what a “Pro†iPad might be, because to me, something worthy of the Pro name would be a […]