A blog about things that interest me.
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Apple’s cash and your app
Today Apple will announce what it is going to do with $100b in cash. Yes that’s right 100,000,000,000 in cash!! As app developers we have contributed a lot to that war chest. That doesn’t mean that apple will reduce it fees, or reduce the cost of the devices, no they will probably announce a dividend.…
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Android ice cream sandwich
Yesterday, as I went thru my rss feeds, I saw the list of devices getting the update for ice cream sandwich – here. This notice got me thinking, how much will ice cream sandwich impact game development on android. I do not have an android device, but the adoption of android is taking off. Enterprises…
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Today’s app
Today, in honor of Pi day, I will be looking at calculator apps. I find it amazing that the iPad did not come with a calculator app, so I find myself launching numbers for some calculations. On the iPhone, I use the basic calculator app that comes with iOS. A quick google search recommends calculator…
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Windows Phone and Windows 8
During the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft made the consumer preview of Windows 8 available to the general public. I had taken the ISO image and installed it on a VM. My goal was to isolate it completely and test out the value of the new Metro based interface. When I had original done some testing…
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Data Plans and App Size
Was listening to MacBreak Weekly this week and heard Alex mention that the Apple store was changing the limit of over the air updates to 50mb which made a lot of sense given the new requirements that Apple has added to all apps on the app store. From here on out you have to include…