I realize it’s somewhat cliché to link to Daring Fireball, but this essay sums up what I’ve been saying about the AppStore for awhile:
But my interest remains, as ever, in the quality of the apps, not the quantity. Let’s say that when the dust starts to settle in this market, Android winds up with far fewer total apps than iPhone OS, but they’re of generally higher quality. That would make Android the Mac to the iPhone’s Windows. I would switch to that platform. (Feel free to substitute WebOS for Android in the above hypothetical.)
While there may be half a dozen Netflix queue management or bowling scoring apps on the AppStore, it doesn’t mean any of them are actually any good. In some cases the choices are so bad that it leaves a poor taste in my mouth and has me contemplating another platform that isn’t run amok with low quality solutions and “me too” software.
A new release that resolves a few niggling issues that were bugging me. Most importantly, task sorting should more closely mimic that of iCal.
I ran into a pretty frustrating bug earlier this week. A few weeks ago I decided to flip the switch from GCC 4.2 to Clang 1.0 for building Check Off. Everything seemed to be working in my testing on my development machine, but as I was doing my Mac OS X Leopard sanity check & […]
Continue reading Clang. Garbage Collection. Leopard. Boom....
A few thoughts:
My desire to buy a Nook on-the-spot has unfortunately made the the DRM issue plaguing these devices even more apparent. I am hesitant to throw my weight behind either Nook or Kindle because I don’t want to be locked into a single hardware platform solely because I have invested myself into their proprietary book format.
Dan Moren writes up a lovely piece in Macworld about my official exit from the iPhone development process. As I said on Twitter, I’m certainly not the first to quit, nor will I be the last. Hopefully high profile publications writing about this will enact even more change at Apple in the future.
I’m pleased to announce that BitBQ, also known as the corporate entity in front of Mr. Patrick Burleson (@pbur), has acquired both FitnessTrack and Emergency Information from my company Second Gear. The Backstory Back in July I wrote: I no longer enjoy building software for the iPhone because of the bureaucracy and infrastructure that surrounds […]
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