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WWDC Day 5

Last day, and I managed to break Xcode on the bus. Doh! Luckily, one of the first labs was an Xcode lab, and I got it fixed. Sessions Today: 9:00 Performance Tuning with Shark on Mac and iPhone I think this will help me optimize the performance of my app Update: Completely full. I’ll have to watch the video 10:30 Various labs [...]

WWDC Day 4

Second day of filtering sessions based on prioritizing stuff for my app. Hope it goes even half as well as yesterday! Sessions Today: 9:00 Processing Multi-Touch Events on iPhone I don’t currently, but might in the future, support multi-touch Update: Some good info. Sample code would be worth looking at when available. 10:30 Managing the iPhone Development Process The process guy in me [...]

iPhone OS Upgrade Adoption

I found a very good article on the iPhone OS Upgrade cycle. This graph is really interesting: It looks like it only takes 1-2 weeks to get to 50% adoption, 1-1.5 months to get to 66% adoption, and 2-3 months to get to 90%. And that is for upgrades that are less interesting than the 3.0 upgrade. So, [...]

WWDC Day 3

On the way into Moscone West this morning, I finally saw the “Apple Confidential” sign, making it clear what I could post on my blog and what I couldn’t. So I’ve removed my session posts from the first two days. Sorry about that. I’ll try to make some “non-Apple Confidential” observations during the remaining three [...]

WWDC Rumor Check

Biggest pre-WWDC rumors: New iPhone H/W Web pad Steve sighting More details from a Top-10 list: Multiple configs, prices starting at $99 Wireless movie and TV downloads Increased storage, RAM and faster CPU Magnetometer (digital compass) and OLED screen Limited third-party background apps FM transmitter Better camera & video Similar look to iPhone 3G Voice control Illuminated Apple Logo

WWDC Keynote

Anyway, CNET is live-blogging at: Live blog: WWDC 2009 keynote so I was able to follow the Mac H/W announcements. ... SDK - 1 million downloads 50K apps on the AppStore 40M iPhones/iPod Touches sold Video of iPhone developers - games, medical, sports - OK, applause for that, too.

WWDC ‘09!

Today is the first day of geekfest, I mean Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009! I’ll be live-blogging the conference (well, perhaps “lightly-delayed blogging”). I’ll also post other live blogging sites that I come across. First News: The room for the 10:00am Keynote filled up at 8:00am! Shoot. It’s the overflow room again for me! More News: Keynote minus [...]

Refactor, refactor, refactor!

It seems every time I need to add some functionality to my app, I end up refactoring other code in the app so the new functionality can use it. This is a GOOD thing. Especially when one is not yet an expert in iPhone app development. It takes a fair amount of experimenting to learn [...]

Mobile Portland: Building an iPhone Business: A Look Back to Look Ahead

Building an iPhone Business: A Look Back to Look Ahead Elia Freedman, Infinity Softworks Numbers $222M net to developers in first 9 months of app store .4% of apps are generating 15% of the income Average app makes $3000 (~$300/month) Numbers derived by Elia Pinch Media has a lot of data Mean price = $0.99, Average = $2.65 Infinity Softworks 12 years in business App [...]

Alpha is out!

Now if I can just get the testers to install it!