technologizer.com - 9/17/2008
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Back in March, I attended one of the more exciting Apple press events I’ve ever been to–the one in which Steve Jobs and company unveiled their plans for the iPhone SDK and App Store. Jobs showed off the iPhone platform, introduced the App Store and explained how it worked, noted that ...
speirs.org - 9/13/2008
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speirs.org —
App Store: I’m out. I will never write
another iPhone application for the App Store as currently...
constituted*. Writing software is a serious investment of time and energy. It also carries the opportunity cost of the other things you could have built. ...
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Fraser Speirs – App Store: I’m out.
blog.wired.com - 9/19/2008
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blog.wired.com —
The iPhone is a revolutionary handset. But it
is also the key to a virtual gold mine:...
The iTunes App Store, where independent developers can become multi-millionaires in just a year. Since its launch in July, the App Store has grown to become an ...
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IPhone Developers Go From Rags to Riches
macworld.com - 9/25/2008
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macworld.com —
One of the presenters at the recent C4
Mac developers conference made a point about Apple that...
is incredibly relevant to how the company is viewed, especially by the media and rabid Apple fans. To paraphrase his statement, in dealing with Apple, one ...
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Mac Word | Don't drive iPhone developers away, Apple
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