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by scottchin 14y ago
There are API methods that directly handle recovery. However, it wasn't until recently (earlier this year) that the App Store review process finally required developers to implement the restore mechanism.
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by scottchin 14y ago
I was very impressed by Siri the other day. I asked "Find me pictures of Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat" And Siri responded by asking whether I wanted to search for "Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat", getting the spelling exactly correct.
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Apple Launches App Store Feature Section for Alternative Maps(macrumors.com)
3 points by scottchin 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple Including UDID for In App Purchase Receipts to Combat Hack(macrumors.com)
1 points by scottchin 14y ago|0 comments
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Muffi Ghadiali (Amazon Kindle) in Charge of OUYA HW/SW(kickstarter.com)
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by scottchin 14y ago
It looks to me like he built the product for someone else as a consultant. So maybe he's under some NDA with the person that hired him.
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by scottchin 14y ago
I think you are right. Was just browsing the app store and seeing a number of apps getting 1-star reviews because of recent updates.
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by scottchin 14y ago
It definitely seems like multiple people can be involved if there is uncertainty on whether to reject the app. From experience, I've found that if my app is sitting in "In Review" status for more than a certain number of hours, it's likely
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by scottchin 14y ago
Any developers know how to change an app update that is "Waiting for Review" from "Automatically Release" to "Hold for Developer Release?"
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by scottchin 14y ago
Wow 12 days. Haven't had to wait that long for a few years now. Probably also a slew of updates due to developers updating keywords caused by the recent change to the App Store search algorithms. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415361
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by scottchin 14y ago
I have two waiting-for-review updates that have been sitting in the queue for 9 days now. This seems much longer than my past experience of 2-4 days turn-around. I wonder if these delays are related to the corrupt updates issue.
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by scottchin 14y ago
There doesnt seem to be any links to the study itself...
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by scottchin 15y ago
Can you share a link to the video? :)
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by scottchin 15y ago
Sad that Ph.D.s get such high offers from industry? Or sad that Post-Docs get such low offers from academia?
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RIM announces new BlackBerry operating system(theglobeandmail.com)
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by scottchin 15y ago
Really enjoyed these posts/discussion. Here are the HN discussions to the first three parts of this series: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955214 (Part 1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965929 (Part 2) http://news.ycombina
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Freemium Games: Some demographics are money makers, others… not so much(techvibes.com)
2 points by scottchin 15y ago|0 comments
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Rumor: Apple offered $800 Million for Dropbox(businessinsider.com)
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by scottchin 15y ago
Thank you so much for the response. It's really insightful. I haven't read too much about developer experiences on the Mac App store, so I'm really looking forward to your next blog post. Thanks again!
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by scottchin 15y ago
I'm really enjoying these articles. Thanks for sharing. Since iAd eCPM has dropped from 15$ to around 1-3$, from my personal experience, have you found that your revenues have also dropped 5-15x? Or has the volume, or other monetization te
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by scottchin 15y ago
And now it sounds like Baidu will be partnering with Dell to make tablets and mobile handsets. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/06/us-dell-baidu-idUS...
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by scottchin 15y ago
Here's Baidu's official website for the OS. http://yi.baidu.com/
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by scottchin 15y ago
I think it will be interesting to see how this unfolds given Baidu's search dominance in China (especially since Google's exit last year), and the projected growth of the mobile market in China for both iOS and Android in the coming year. S
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China's Baidu launching their own fork of Android(reuters.com)
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by scottchin 15y ago
here's how I justified it. Say you use your new air for 2-3 years. Say you spend around 20% of your days using it. That is about 5000 hours. Say you get 10% speedup using 1.8ghz i7 vs 1.7ghz i5. That saves you about 500 hours of time. 500$
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by scottchin 15y ago
I think this perspective is very interesting. It reminds me of a recent quote from Tim O'Reilly where he talks about similar trends in that, "when something is commoditized, something adjacent becomes valuable." I'm not sure if this the ori
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by scottchin 15y ago
I may have missed this in the article, but I am wondering how much this game sells for. I am not familiar with the pricing of indie games on xbox live. Congrats btw for releasing your game! Very interesting article! Edit: Ok I poked around
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by scottchin 15y ago
I have the same issue myself. I feel that I generally have good taste but I am so inexperienced with design, that I would never come up with good looking design from scratch. That being said, I found out about this useful Mac program called
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by scottchin 15y ago
Cool stuff. Will check it out. Did you do the graphics and icons yourself? What framework did you use to manage the backend exchanging of photos?
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by scottchin 16y ago
Ghostbusters :)

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