David Smith:
This past week has seen an explosion of writing and discussion about the business of making software for sale on the iOS App Store. Personally I love it when these little bubbles of discussion appear. If you’ve listened to me for any period of time you’ll know that one of the things I really like is being a student of the App Store. These discussions provide the opportunity and motivation for all sorts of anecdotes which help expand my view on where things stand.
This post is a trifecta. There’s a link to the Developing Perspective podcast, where David Smith lays all this out verbally. There’s the post itself (which really clicked for me). And there’s the wealth of related links at the end of the post.
If you are a developer, go to it. Even if you are not a developer, but have even a passing interest in the App Store, this is worth a read. [Via iOS Dev Weekly]
I hope someone important at Apple has been following the conversation that’s been going on.
I am glad to see this posted here. Now those who called foul on me saying this before can see it wasn’t my love of Android speaking.
I’m not sure where you see anything that backs up that comment. You have been ranting about how Apple needs to fix things, because Apple is why apps aren’t selling etc.
Little to nothing in Mr Smith’s post is about the App Store or Apple.
So what exactly are you ‘glad’ about. Unless you are trying to recant your previous comments against Apple and claim you were always saying it was the developers all along
Bland Jr. is just glad to yet again be calling attention to himself. total narcissist on this site.
I love how when you have nothing valid to add you find a way to attack me. It really does make me smile. Thx, helped make my night. [seriously, no sarcasm]
No recanting. I have long said around here the App Store is not “where the money is” and “the only place for devs to make a living” [not exact quotes but my points]. I also was not talking specifically about Smith’s point but the entire discussion as a whole from the community.
You now have very prominent iOS devs speaking out about these very topics yet I was called a troll, Google shill, paid Samsung fanboy, etc, etc, etc [all in love I’m sure; LOL] for saying the exact same thing.
That’s all.
They seem to have some way of following the community. You never know until a WWDC or something where they mention some random tweet or blog post/discussion as why they made decision X.