Manton and Daniel continue their discussion about the challenge of succeeding in the App Stores and in general as an indie software developer.
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July 31, 2014 at 2:00 am.
Daniel’s home repair distraction, finding time to explore new WWDC goodies, Yosemite public beta, Apple’s continued home runs, and a metaphor on success in the App Store and… gym memberships?
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July 25, 2014 at 1:16 pm.
Manton and Daniel respond to feedback from last week about Swift dividing the Mac and iOS developer community, and discuss the impending shutdown of App.io’s brilliant web-based iOS app demos.
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- Kill Swift, Fix Xcode – Tim Burks’s bug report to Apple imploring them to abandon Swift development.
- Renaissance – Tim Burks’s iOS app-development conference.
- Nu – Tim Burks’s ambitious, Objective-C-based programming language.
- Swift Blog – Apple’s official blog for the Swift Programming Language.
- MobileMe Blog – Short-lived Apple blog dedicated to updating customers about the status of MobileMe (via Cabel Sasser)
- Surfin’ Safari – The WebKit team’s official blog.
- Farewell App.io – Announcement from App.io that their demo-page style product will be shut down.
- Diet Coda – Panic’s demo-page style deployment of App.io’s innovative iOS app preview technology.
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July 15, 2014 at 7:52 pm.
Daniel and Manton talk about the iPhone 6’s allegedly improved glass, our continuing resolve to postpone Swift adoption, and raise the question of whether Swift will split the platform’s developers into two language camps.
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Manton and Daniel discuss July 4th, Kevin Hoctor and the indie dream, and the heart & soul of Apple and whether they can scale their engineering teams geographically across the world.
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- Fulfilling a Dream – Kevin Hoctor’s post about leaving indie life to work for Apple.
- MoneyWell – Kevin’s personal finance accounting software for Mac and iOS.
- Connected Flow – Fraser Speirs’s defunct indie software company.
- Cocoa Radio – Blake Burris’s original Cocoa interview podcast.
- CocoaRadio – Justin Williams’s new Cocoa interview podcast.
- Radio, Live Transmission – Archive.org mirror of Buzz’s original post about being on Cocoa Radio.
- Silenced by Self – Daniel’s critique of Buzz’s refusal to be on Cocoa Radio.
- From the Factory Floor – MacTech Magazine feature that sometimes included interviews with Apple employees.
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