Apple is very near the milestone of having 100,000 apps in their app store. Whislt this is a massive result for Apple and iTunes, being the largest online software distribution model in the world, I'm not sure it is that great for those of us creating new apps. Even more so as it concentrates strongly on games, how do the business app guys get a look in?
It is amazing but the downside could be the difficulty in being recognised or even found, kind of like a needle in a haystack.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
another SDK download
with Snow leaopard comes a new iPhone OS update to 3.1.2 and with that comes a new SDK to download, for iPhone OS 3.1.2, massive file and not massively fast to download. The guys developing the webapplication for our iPhone native app say it is near completion for testing, so getting exciting to see something I drew and designed, operating and in a basic way, talking to data from my phone app. The app on the phone itself isnt yet complete but that will be the real exciting part!
For now, I wait so that I can test the webapp. Once this runs smoothly and is tested to death we canmove onto the phone app which will submit data to our server from the phone via wifi or the cellular network.
The down side is that the app store is massively saturated with apps and the more there are, the harder it is to get your app noticed, marketed well and sold in large numbers. It could be that the massive sales of apps is becoming a less heard of story
For now, I wait so that I can test the webapp. Once this runs smoothly and is tested to death we canmove onto the phone app which will submit data to our server from the phone via wifi or the cellular network.
The down side is that the app store is massively saturated with apps and the more there are, the harder it is to get your app noticed, marketed well and sold in large numbers. It could be that the massive sales of apps is becoming a less heard of story
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Frustratingly slow
no updates from our coding guys and it is frustratingly difficult not to pester them while we wait the word with something to show for all the time and effort coding. In the meantime a new update of the Apple SDK and new news of an updated iMac range and soaring Apple profits with the shares climbing ever higher. It's funny really, about 12 months ago I recommended to anybody I could, buy apple shares now...whilst the recession was at it's lowest...anybody that listened sure could make a lot of money right now with the shares flying high. I hope ournext update is that we have managed to test the backend of the webapp and the front end...our target launch date is mid december and we still want that, our coding guys say they are on target so it is down to trust and my struggling ability not to micro manage!
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