CodePromo, my app that makes it easy to generate & share promo codes, interfaces with iTunes Connect. Consequently it can’t be distributed in the App Store. I’m fine with that and knew it when I started. I’m writing this post to air the alternatives. My original plan was to distribute the application as a binary: […]

Apple press event for January/27 Assumed to be the tablet announcement, TUAW’s Mike Schramm offers a nice summary of the rumors and specs speculations. Friendly iTunes links for your apps from Apple Best App Ever nominees announced Voting is open. Apple Taking iPhone to Verizon Wireless: The Discussion AT&T is due to lose their exclusivity […]

Peter Farago, VP/Marketing at the mobile analytics firm Flurry wrote to inform us that they’ve merged with Pinch Media. The combined company, which will retain the Flurry name, boasts impressive iPhone and Android coverage: four out of five iPhones and two out of three Android devices run apps that use analytics from the company. With […]

148Apps is running their Best App Ever contest again this year to “help publicize the very best apps available” across 55 categories. I’m a bit of a broken record when it comes to app marketing: word of mouth to drive app discovery and social proof to give potential buyers remorse-free permission to purchase. The Best […]

Apple Redesigns US App Store with Less Words, More Pictures Apple has recently redesigned the look and feel of the App Store to better showcase the applications. Bar-code Scanning RedLaser iPhone App Reaches 750K Downloads, Over $1M In Revenue Financial information on just how successful the makers of “RedLaser” have been. iPhone Users Urged to […]

The Sensors in your iPhone An informative talk on the sensors in the iPhone given at the Where 2.0 Online Conference of 2009. Command Guru Webcast reality TV featuring Aaron Hillegass leading ten devs/designers — including friend-of-the-site and creator of the icon-set that’s part of our holiday giving bundle Eddie Wilson — in week long, […]

Paper Toss Developer Earns $125,000 in Monthly Ad Revenue Interesting details on the success of an iPhone game developer. iPhone Credit Card Reader ‘Square’ Goes Live Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s new start-up is now open to trial users. With a hardware device you can make purchases with your credit card on the go with your […]

Earlier this week I inadvertently purchased an app by clicking its “Buy” button when I’d intended to click through to see its product page. I’d never gone through the return process and suspect many other devs haven’t either, so I recorded a rough screencast. View in low-res below, or in higher-resolution at Vimeo: The number […]