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by flyosity 15y ago
By themselves.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Nearly every one of their apps have gone #1, not to mention all their MacHeist revenue, so their small team is doing really, REALLY well on an individual basis since they mostly do a profit share between teammates.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'm really interested in John's switch because, as far as I know, at Mozilla he was working on JavaScript evangelism and performance, but at Khan Academy he'll actually be building software which I think is a pretty large change.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Except PhoneGap is not really the best of both worlds. Users prefer native apps because of the quality and consistency of the user interface frameworks available to developers. If you're building your app with HTML/CSS and deploying it with
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by flyosity 15y ago
But will instead pull out a magazine or book that's larger? I don't see the logic.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Beautiful hardware design, innovative user experience (borrows good stuff from Windows Phone and webOS), lots of popular built-in apps, outstanding camera, but... ...built on MeeGo, the operating system Nokia dumped for Windows. It's sad to
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by flyosity 15y ago
The problem is you're not attacking the market of people who prefer 7" tablets, you're attacking the market of people who prefer a 7" tablet SO MUCH they're willing to not get an iPad because of it. Who are these people? Probably geeks. R
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by flyosity 15y ago
My story isn't unique (for decent iOS apps) so I didn't bother writing about it. If you want information from iOS developers making buckets of cash read tap tap tap's blog or Tapbots' blog or Loren Brichter's Tweetie stats chart or Trism's
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by flyosity 15y ago
The iPad didn't validate the market for tablets, it validated the market for iPads. And if over 50% of people prefer a 10" tablet to a 7" one, why in the world would Samsung, RIM and others think they could sell one at a smaller size? Did t
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by flyosity 15y ago
"You obviously don't make money on Day 1." I don't know about Android, but I made hundreds of dollars on Day 1 of my app being available on the iPad App Store and know a LOT of friends who have made thousands of dollars on Day 1 from their
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by flyosity 15y ago
Do you even know Cocoa? I do, and I can't even begin to explain how they did the linked code scrollviews comparing the diffs. Trust me: implementation was extremely complex.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Google and all Google properties were down in central North Carolina for about 15 minutes just now: confirmed by others in this area on totally different ISPs. I wonder if it's related...
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by flyosity 15y ago
You can't design for the web (or for any medium) without knowing its constraints. If a "web designer" doesn't know HTML or CSS then how can they adequately design for the web as a platform when they don't know how it works?
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by flyosity 15y ago
Depends on what you want them to code. Any great designer who works on the web can write HTML & CSS, else they're not a great designer. If you want them to know Rails, Python, or PHP and help you with middle-tier integration, then that'
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'm fairly sure that the LLVM compiler is smarter than the smartest Objective-C code I could write, but your mileage may vary.
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by flyosity 15y ago
As an iPhone developer (well, mainly designer, but I also write Cocoa) I can tell you that thinking it's "some pretty gloss" is a big mistake. It's not "gloss" it's incredible over-execution and it's what separates a regular app from a bloc
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by flyosity 15y ago
Durham, NC (fulltime, remote is possible) Bronto Software: awesome marketing & analytics web software used by companies like Trek, Armani, Roku, Etsy, Timex and tons more. Looking for engineers to work on BIG data and BIG scalability sc
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by flyosity 15y ago
I posted up above: this is not a joke. I've known Josh for a long, long time and this situation actually happened (or, is happening). He's not a marketer, he's a very well-known interaction designer that's been in and around the web design
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by flyosity 15y ago
Josh is a real guy, I've been friends with him for a long, long time. He's completely legit and this situation is very real, and he did file a report first thing. I think he threw the site up without knowing how big it'd get.
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by flyosity 15y ago
The thing that always gets me is that "idea guys" seem to assume that "developers" can't get ideas, like it's a skill that only a select few can possess. Guess what? Everyone has ideas, and being a developer is great because we can actually
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by flyosity 15y ago
That's a lot of cords...
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by flyosity 15y ago
The phrase App Store was not in use before Apple's App Store was created. Take a look at Google Trends from the past few years. Nobody talked about it until Apple used the term, now, it's used like people saying Kleenex when they could have
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by flyosity 15y ago
It "compromises in some areas of the user experience" but you're saying open web technologies present the best user experience possible? How? The App Store is one tap away. Hundreds of thousands of apps all neatly categorized and sorted a b
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by flyosity 15y ago
Lots of people in this thread are excited about Playboy bypassing the App Store but no one is talking about the huge user experience downsides that it brings up: * Have to sign in every time you load the app. * Herky jerky animations &
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by flyosity 15y ago
Don't do anything for it, don't even have it linked off my main personal site & blog cause I keep forgetting :)
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by flyosity 15y ago
Don't advertise at all, just announced it through Twitter. Only have the 1 free one and 1 paid bundle for now, but working on more.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Thanks! That's the most popular one on my site.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Just me, I do everything (design & code, ha!) and it takes about 4-5 weeks to fully do one. I'm working on more, just need to find the time to crank them out.
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by flyosity 15y ago
They're at http://designthencode.com
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by flyosity 15y ago
I know it's recurring, but I thought the OP was asking about things that "sell themselves", that is, no effort on your part to make an extra unit of money. Could be wrong though.

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