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by shimfish 6y ago
I've been trying for ages to get Google to take down spam/scam apps that use my apps name and screenshots but just add "tips" or "guide" to pretend they're legit. Nothing doing. Still about 50 imitation ap
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by shimfish 6y ago
Not strictly true. Your earnings after the first 1M in a calendar year will become subject to 30%. Your earnings before that aren't affected. However, you are then kicked out of the program for the whole following year and can only rea
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by shimfish 6y ago
One of the Starship Titanic developers is also the person who converted this Hitchhikers game to run on the BBC servers.
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by shimfish 6y ago
It's not even mini HDMI. It's micro HDMI. And those cables are insanely fragile. I went through 3 in as many days when I got my Pi 4 recently.
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by shimfish 6y ago
Or CSS extensions
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by shimfish 6y ago
I guess Ben Goldacre would be the person to ask given this study from a few months back https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1259074178952683520
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by shimfish 7y ago
I managed to get round this by copying Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/13.4 from the latest Xcode.xib into my installed Xcode package. I can now debug 13.4 devices on Xcod
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by shimfish 7y ago
That link doesn't announce increased review times. However, reviews have been taking days for a while now. Even changing the app store icon now requires days for approval.
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by shimfish 7y ago
I make the My PlayHome series of apps, in case you want to try them out. Not enough people are willing to actually pay for apps. Piracy, especially on Android, is extremely high. The few kids who don't pirate apps are constantly emaili
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by shimfish 7y ago
FWIW, I got an email from them months ago warning about this. After a decade of using CrashPlan, I'm on the verge of jumping ship. Just thought I'd check and apparently it has silently been failing to backup for nearly two days. A
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by shimfish 8y ago
A while ago, before I realised the obvious truth that arguing with people on Facebook isn't exactly productive, it dawned on me that many people mistake the ability to form a grammatically correct sentence for thinking. It's nice
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by shimfish 8y ago
People were correct to downvote my comment. The tone was all wrong. For some reason, I take Android's many shortcomings as a personal affront. I guess that's what years of being a dev where all the piracy and user support are with
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by shimfish 8y ago
Whether this is possible or not is deeply missing the point as well as showing a vital misunderstanding about UX.
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by shimfish 8y ago
I have a vivid memory of having to carry one of these up a flight of stairs. I used the machine as an undergrad, doing some coding as part of the university's driving simulator project.
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by shimfish 8y ago
I'm curious as to how this behaviour is actually detected. I mean are they checking for outgoing network requests that contain something that looks like co-ordinates because presumably that would be trivial to obfuscate. Or is this rea
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by shimfish 9y ago
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
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by shimfish 9y ago
It's clearer in the iPad screenshots. Thanks for asking as I now notice none of the iPhone screenshots show the characters holding anything. I should probably change that...
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by shimfish 9y ago
Thanks! It's so nice to get actual feedback from parents. I live in the middle of nowhere and very, very rarely actually get to witness the app being used in the wild.
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by shimfish 9y ago
:) A friend of ours does the artwork using actual pen and paper. We scan it in and clean it up in Photoshop.
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by shimfish 9y ago
It's essentially a doll house. The characters can hold things. Their arms are open so it's easy to put things into their hands.
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by shimfish 9y ago
P.S. https://itunes.apple.com/app/my-playhome/id439628153 in case anybody was wondering.
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by shimfish 9y ago
Just to add my personal data point of experience... 6 years ago, I took a break from doing webdev freelancing and spent around 3 months developing a kids app. At that point the money ran out so I released the app even though it wasn't
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by shimfish 9y ago
Does anyone know if the iPhone's MAC randomization has any effect on this?
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by shimfish 9y ago
As a developer who makes a living charging for apps, it's wonderful that you can't simply sideload apps like with Android.
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by shimfish 10y ago
I believe apps can no longer read clipboards while not in the foreground since iOS9 though I can't seem to find documentation that confirms that behavior.
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by shimfish 10y ago
If your intention is to make money from selling apps, then don't let the market share fool you. It appears that it's rare for anyone to make more than 20% on Android compared to what they make on iOS.
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by shimfish 10y ago
...which is why they just introduced subscription pricing for productivity apps. This may, or may not, make a big difference for serious apps on the iPad.
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by shimfish 10y ago
It seems that a buried nugget of info here is how seemingly pointless Amazon Underground is in terms of revenue. Admittedly MV seems a bad fit for it because of its low replayability. Also, what's with iDreamSky? They basically give th
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by shimfish 11y ago
Facebook appears to have moved to an html player in the last few days.
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by shimfish 11y ago
Except how long do you think it would take Google to move to app subscriptions if that happened?

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