No one like a journalist to take what you say and write down the exact opposite…
When asked to confirm whether I’ve been contacted by Phillip Schiller, I told Gregg that it wasn’t me who got contacted by him. It was a fellow iPhone developer who got in contact and got the reply I quoted on [...]
Apparently Apple gave today an official answer, to Clayton Morris, saying that only 400 accounts had been involved in the iTunes developer fraud I had made public this Sunday. They also went on underlining that we’re talking about 400 out of 150 million accounts – an extremely tiny percentage; they told how Thuat Nguyen has [...]
[This is part 3 of the story started here and continued here; for external sources, check out the related articles on thenextweb.com [1] and [2]]
In case people were asking for more proofs, here’s a screenshot I took using a pretty cool web app focusing on iPhone developers, AppAnnie. They index daily all the apps in [...]
Just in case the App Store team reads this blog (we got word from Philip Schiller that they are investigating this issue), at Patrick’s suggestion I took a look at the rest of the US top paid book apps. I therefore am inclined to think that the case I told about earlier today is probably not [...]
[Update 1, later the same day: do take a look at the follow-up; after submitting the story to Apple, a fellow developer got word from none other than Phillip Schiller that the App Store team has started investigations on this. Gg, guys!]
[Update2, the day after: over at this post I put together a quick estimate [...]
I don’t like to go around and share those ‘a-ha’ moments with people, but this link saved the day and lots of headaches:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2567498/objective-c-categories-in-static-library
Apparently XCode likes to ‘optimize’ the static libraries and remove ‘unused classes’ from them; only that it has a very wrong idea of what classes are unused; adding -all_load at Other Linker flags [...]
After asiduous work, I’m proud and happy to announce that Self Help Classics, my iPhone masterpiece, has now reached version 3.0. This means:
gorgeous new look and feel
full iPad compatibility -> the app looks better than ever on the iPad’s big screen
a new dedicated website, just for it: http://selfhelpapp.com
The price? Still $0.99 if you get it [...]
Update April 15 :
I stand corrected on a couple of the points below:
Push Notifications will still remain the mean of delivery of asynchronous notifications from external servers; Twitter, email and Messenger apps will still need to use these; so Urban Airship is safe
OpenFeint announced they’ll migrate their platform to build ON TOP of Apple’s [...]
Alexandru Brie, born 1981, Romania.
Not your average indie developer: BSc degree in Computer Science in Bucharest, Master's degree at Ecole Polytechnique Paris. Has worked in a major software company nearby the Eiffel Tower, until he got bored of corporate life and took the indie/entrepreneur road.
Ever since, he wakes up whenever he wants, works from wherever he choses, and only on stuff he's passionate about. And he simply loves what he does now: creating cool apps for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
His biggest AppStore success? - Self Help Classics, a book app downloaded and loved by tens of thousands whose lives were changed by it.
Currently investing his efforts in the TouchBooksReader, a iPhone ebook app commercial framework.
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