Weekly Roundup: "Small" iPhones and Other Oddities
Aaron Brethorst • September 22, 2014
Last Friday, I picked up my new "small" iPhone at the Apple Store, and then drove over to a T-Mobile store where I terminated my AT&T service after 7(?) years of being one of their customers. It wasn't any one thing in particular that drove me over the edge with them. Instead it was a multitude of the psychic equivalent of papercuts that pushed me into the arms of refreshingly foul-mouthed CEO John Legere's mobile company instead.
Tethering? Check. Music streaming is ex...
Read More…Control of the Week: iOS 8 Sampler
Aaron Brethorst • September 22, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Watches, and Payments, and iPhones, oh my!
Aaron Brethorst • September 13, 2014
In case you missed it, Apple announced three major new products last Tuesday. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, of course, are selling ridiculously well. The Plus is totally sold out for the next month, and most iPhone 6 variants are shipping in "7-10 business days." So, that's great news. I stayed up until about 3:00AM Pacific time Friday night hitting refresh in Safari every 30 seconds ...
Read More…Control of the Week: JYGraphViewController
Aaron Brethorst • September 13, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Bad Incentives
Aaron Brethorst • September 07, 2014
The most interesting thing I read online this past week had absolutely nothing to do with Markdown. If you're unaware of the tempest in a teapot currently surrounding that subject, I suggest not changing that at all. Instead, what I found most fascinating this past week, was an in-depth look at how LG managed to screw up their acquisition of webOS.
Read More…Control of the Week: JMAnimatedImageView
Aaron Brethorst • September 07, 2014
Weekly Roundup: The Keynote
Aaron Brethorst • September 01, 2014
We're about a week away from the unveiling of the iPhone 6, and—it seems—the iWatch. I've always been incredibly impressed with the incredibly polished, and generally glitch-free nature of Apple's keynotes, especially when you compare them to the general disaster fests that typify Microsoft and Google keynotes. The Google I/O keynote at the end of June this summer was an especially notable...
Read More…Control of the Week: MGSwipeTableCell
Aaron Brethorst • September 01, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Baseless Rumors and Wild Conjecture about the iPhone 6
Aaron Brethorst • August 24, 2014
A brief update for all of you on a few topics of note over the past weeks: App Store revenue, iPhone 6 rumors, iOS testing, and Swift.
First, Allen Ding, the creator of Kiwi, a BDD framework for Cocoa, writes about his experiences with making money in the App Store. In his first attempt to make money on his app, Saved, he used a freemium model, saw the app downloaded 107,000 times after spending about $1,500 on Facebook a...
Read More…Control of the Week: VBFJellyView
Aaron Brethorst • August 24, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Pragmatic Testing
Aaron Brethorst • August 18, 2014
A new issue of Objc.io is out, and this month focuses entirely on testing. I wouldn't say that I'm dogmatic when it comes to my testing practices. Test Driven Development, and its idea of always writing a test before writing new code has never worked right for me 100% of the time. I think it's a great tool to rely upon under the right circumstances, but you need to understand what those circumstances are. One example of where I ...
Read More…Control of the Week: OLEContainerScrollView
Aaron Brethorst • August 18, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Surviving the App Store
Aaron Brethorst • August 09, 2014
Since last week, a couple more interesting posts have surfaced on how to survive in the App Store. In particular, Stuart Hall published an in-depth look at the value of driving revenue with in-app purchases. I find it distressing that an app with almost 2 million downloads can make as little as $60,000, but that's still a lot better than $0. Although I have no inside knowledge, my guess is that Stuart either already makes as much, or will soon, with his AppBot s...
Read More…Control of the Week: TOMSMorphingLabel
Aaron Brethorst • August 09, 2014
Weekly Roundup: Sustainable Software
Aaron Brethorst • August 02, 2014
In case you missed it, Jared Sinclair kicked off this past week by offering an in-depth look at the sales figures on his RSS reader, Unread. If you've been an iOS developer for a while, you probably already know how this story ends. Making it as an indie developer, at least in the mobile space, is incredibly challenging.
That game you've poured your heart and soul into for the past 12 months? It's probably not going to earn...
Read More…Control of the Week: 1Password App Extension
Aaron Brethorst • August 02, 2014
Weekly Roundup: iPhone 6 Release Date
Aaron Brethorst • July 27, 2014
If the releases of the iPhone 5 and 5s are any indication, it seems almost certain that Apple will release the iPhone 6 on September 19, 2014. The device (devices?) will be announced at a media event on September 9. We'll likely see another two betas between now and the GM build of iOS 8.
How are your iOS 8 plans coming along? With only about 8 weeks to go, there isn't a ton of time left to get cracking on iOS 8-specific features for the launch window!
Best,
Aaron
Control of the Week: MotionBlur
Aaron Brethorst • July 27, 2014
Weekly Roundup: iBeacon and Passbook
Aaron Brethorst • July 20, 2014
In a quick update from last week, Microsoft announced the most sweeping layoffs they've ever done, with a total impact of over 18,000 jobs, plus an unknown number of contractors. Of course, in classic Microsoft fashion, they announced 2/3s of the layoffs last week, with the other 6,000 looming over the heads of remaining employees like a Damoclean sword. If Microsoft's senior management thinks this will ...
Read More…Control of the Week: ISHPermissionKit
Aaron Brethorst • July 20, 2014
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