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Posts from July 2008

Where The Numbers Come From

A few people emailed to ask how I knew how many users Exposure has. The numbers come from Flickr.
When you use Flickr’s API, your app is assigned an API key and every request has to include that key. Flickr provides certain stats to developers about the activity that’s happening for each key and one of [...]


App Store Review is broken

It’s well known that there is a process of review that happens when a developer submits an application to the iPhone App Store. At the iPhone SDK launch, it was claimed that this was to prevent “bad” applications reaching users’ phones. The problem was that “bad” was and remains loosely defined. Those pornographic applications, [...]


Posted
16 July 2008 @ 12pm

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Demographics Is Destiny

Apple sold 1,000,000 iPhone 3Gs in a weekend.
Allow me to repeat that: Apple sold 1,000,000 iPhone 3Gs in a weekend.
If you haven’t got it already, it’s time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple’s mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond. It’s a bold prediction, but the numbers seem fairly clear.
There [...]


It’s Out!

The App Store is live, and you can go get Exposure right now. Of course, you won’t be able to run it until you have an iPhone or iPod touch upgraded to OS 2.0, but you’ll at least get to see the screenshots.

Exposure (Free)
Exposure Premium ($9.99)

Here’s a quick screenshot of the killer feature: Near [...]


On Switching to Git

Yes, I switched all my source control to git. I don’t have a lot of insight to share so far, but I doubt I’m going to change back.
I work solo, only moving between a desktop and a laptop, so I’m not making huge use of the distributed capability. My previous writing on Git [...]


Another 1.0.

Exposure 1.0 is done. I’d like to say “at long last”, but this one has been an incredible sprint. We only got the iPhone SDK on March 6th - 125 days ago. The sixth beta of the SDK came out on May 29th and that was only 41 days ago.
The NDA is still [...]