News from GDC this week: GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model Is Ngmoco alienating fans of some of their favorite games because of the continued use of the “freemium” business model? GDC 2010: Street Fighter 4 for iPhone Out Now Some say you can’t experience Street Fighter 4 on a touch-screen device. I think […]

GDC is on in San Francisco this week and, with it, comes the iPhone Developer’s Union party. The party’s free to attend and open to all. Come mingle with our own Ari Braginsky, indie iPhone devs and the media who cover them. Where/When: Marriott Lobby Bar (across from Moscone West). Weds, March 10 @ 8pm. […]

iPhone Wax is a framework that lets you write native iPhone apps in Lua. Developing in Lua is fast and objects are garbage collected. Wax bridges Objective-C and Lua using the Objective-C runtime. With Wax, anything you can do in Objective-C is automatically available to you in Lua. Wax has been in active development since […]

The big story this week: Apple filed a patent lawsuit against HTC. Some of the coverage includes: Engadget’s Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents The Register’s Apple turns the flamethrower on Android Wil Shipley’s Open Letter to Steve Jobs This week’s yanked from the store apps include: WiFi Detectors Other news: Virgin America […]

Brent Simmons (podcast interview), author of the popular RSS Reader NetNewsWire, published a thorough piece on his weblog about switching away from Core Data for specific performance reasons. Simmons says that Core Data “is the right way to go 95% of the time” but that, because — as an object graph and persistence manager — […]

The big news this week is, of course, Apple’s banning of 5000 sexy apps. For a cross-section of the reaction, see: Henry Blodget’s Apple’s Absurd Double-Standard: Boobs, Skin, And Sex Apps Are Fine When Big Media Makes Them MG Siegler’s Apple, There’s Pornography On My iPhone. The App Is Called Safari. You Made It. John […]

John Gruber’s Tits and Apps is required reading. Read it for thorough analysis on Apple’s decision drop 5,000 steamy apps while selectively keeping similar apps from known brands. John’s reasoning — “Apple sees the App Store as an aspect of its brand. Developers see the App Store as the entirety of the Cocoa Touch platform.” […]