Archive for the 'Business' Category

Apple Lifts iPhone Developer NDA

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Apple made the right choice today, in choosing to publicly lift the non-disclosure agreement which has, for the past several months, prevented iPhone developers from discussing specifics of the platform and development process. I’m sure most of you have already heard the news, it’s being shouted from the rooftops on venues such as Twitter, but […]

Microsoft Ads Are Genius

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Lately we’ve been treated to the introduction of a couple new ads from Microsoft, featuring Jerry Seinfeld: Windows Ads The prevailing thoughts on the internet seem to be that these ads are ridiculous, that they make no salient point, that they are barely funny, and that they are a pathetic, misguided attempt by Microsoft to […]

Core Intuition 5: The AppStore

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Manton and I sat down to chat about everything under the sun, but inevitably everything turned to Apple’s newly launched AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch. In the podcast I mentioned a funny picture I had seen of many copies of Sudoku installed on the same iPhone. I mistakenly (tentatively, though!) credited Glenn Fleishman as […]

Core Intuition: The Design Awards

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

In Episode 4, Manton and I discuss the Apple Design Awards, which were handed out at WWDC. We also go off on a fun tangent about application versioning, and how the traditional “Mac way” of doing it is is frequently overlooked or ignored by new developers to the platform.