Thus spake some guy who created an iPhone app and paid blew somehow got Gruber to write about it on his blog. This prompted a ferocious one-day spike in sales for the craplet, but that was it. From the developer: “People assumed that with his review, we had joined the ranks of the rare but [...]
JohnGruber : "Hardware and software both matter, and Apple’s history shows that there’s a good argument to be made for developing integrated hardware and software. But if you asked me which matters more, I wouldn’t hesitate to say software. All things considered I’d much prefer a PC running Mac OS X to a Mac running Windows." - Very interesting. There...
... with the iPhone compared to all of Nokia's cellphone business during the recent financial quarter. JohnGruber from Daring Fireball saw Joe's post, and with his response laid the smackdown on Joe's analysis. Gruber's post boils down to castigating Wilcox for ignoring Apple's statement of non-GAAP earnings. Basically, Apple's subscription-based accounting for the iPhone spreads...
JohnGruber puts the call out to “bring back the two-arm gesture for ‘fuck you’”. Seoul Brother accepts the challenge, delivered in the form of a video. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Twitter, Facebook & FriendFeed. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid , subscribe via RSS , Twitter , Facebook & FriendFeed .
Jason Snell and JohnGruber discuss the software changes. Unfortunately, Apple TV needs much more than a software update. With true HD video, a lot more content on iTunes, and a 3.5-inch hard drive it could be interesting.
JohnGruber nails the reason why it's so hard for everyone playing catch-up to the iPhone. Android 2.0, the soon-to-be-released Verizon Droid, and features like turn-by-turn directions in Google Maps should make things interesting. Competition, spawned by the success of the Droid or even the Palm Pre are important for this device category to continue to experience growth and most importantly...
JohnGruber wrote an interesting article on Daring Fireball last week about iPhone web apps as an alternative to the App Store. Gruber starts by quoting Peter-Paul Koch who thinks that developers should just bypass the App Store by creating web apps instead of native apps: In order to release an iPhone application without having to submit it to Apple’s insane App Store process,...
... fast. For more on Chrome OS's backstory, see our first glimpse at Google Chrome OS . Mac-lover JohnGruber predicts that Chrome OS will be the operating system on your secondary computer; he says that Google's betting that instead of two cars, you just need a car and a bicycle . Meet what might someday become your new bicycle. Testing Method 1: Run Chromium OS as a Virtual Machine...
A lovely video recapping a year of Field Notes Brand note books. I’ve been holding off picking up Field Notes note books for far too long. Today I’ll be counting the change in my piggy bank, cashing them in, and purchasing a pack. /via JohnGruber. Tags: coudal partners, fieldnotes, john-gruber, notebooks, youtubeShort URL: http://cdevroe.com/p/3263
I have several more things to say in the Web apps vs. native apps debate, and I’ve decided that a few smaller posts treating just one subject would be the best form. Today we kick off with the Cocoa Touch framework. JohnGruber wants me to mention the Cocoa Touch framework. He feels that its excellence is an important factor in the success of native iPhone apps. Point is, although...
... seeing how far developers can push web apps. They're not an alternative to every iPhone app, as JohnGruber points out at Daring Fireball , because web apps don't have access to a lot of the iPhone's hardware functions (accelerometer, camera, etc.). On top of that, the Cocoa Touch framework makes native apps not only faster than web apps, but easier to write. Despite all that, Pie...
... policy has been largely relegated to tech sites and developer communities. That’s why, as JohnGruber pointed out , it is interesting that Apple’s senior vice-president, Phil Schiller, took the time to discuss the App Store approval process with BusinessWeek. App Store rejection stories, ranging from the incredulous to the downright ridiculous have existed almost as long...
JohnGruber / Daring Fireball: The OS Opportunity — A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled “Herd Mentality”, I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes: … Hardware and software both matter, and Apple’s history shows that there’s a good argument to be made for developing integrated [...]
Some weekend reading culled from our most popular tweets this week. Steve Blank and I have a good discussion about his and Eric Ries’ new customer development overlay. Regarding the Atlas Developer Beta, JohnGruber says that “Access to the beta program is $20″ — this is the new way and I like [...]