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InformationWeek attempts iPhone website; Fails

As an iPhone developer, I often encounter companies that try to save a lot of money by making a mobile website and then claiming (to their partners / customers / advertisers) that it’s an iPhone app....

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Perennial problems of launching an iPhone app…

We launched an app this week that’s been exhaustively tested: 2G, 3G, 3G S, 4 iPod 2/3, iPod 4 OS 3.1, 3.1.3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 10+ different human testers Apple’s own testing (App-review process) …and yet...

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Mobile signatures: a new artform?

As Tom puts it: “Spelling curtesy of Iphone” “Periods everywhere? Sorry, this email was composed on Google’s Nexus One” Mobile signatures: a new artform…? Other good ones out there – any favourites?...

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Going to GDC 2011? Want an iPhone app for the conference?

Last GDC, we made an iPhone app for friends at the conference, but it got stuck in submission for too long (Apple was being paranoid about anything with location/GPS at the time. Sigh) and only a...

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Nokia N8: doesn’t connect to computers

This week, I won a Nokia N8 at a game of pool (She Rides!). If you plug it in to a Mac, do you get: Access to your photos? NO! (no support for the USB standard for data-devices) Access to your...

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Gamers play on iPhone instead of hand-held consoles

Even if you own a Nintendo DS or a Sony PlayStationPortable, there’s a high chance you’re playing games on your phone instead: “27.2% of consumers who indicate that they play games on their phones only...

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Writing apps for Nokia / Ovi – Attempt 1

I’ve written lots of apps for iPhone/iPad and Android. Recently, Nokia kindly gave me a new N8. So, over Xmas, I thought it would be fun to write some games for it. Didn’t get very far. Nokia “only...

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Installing/Developing Android (especially on OS X)

UPDATE: updated August 2011, with more detailed / idiot-proof instructions – and a couple of shortcuts. NB: when you’ve done this install once, and checked the relevant bits into your Source Control,...

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Sony Ericsson betrays customers, claims it’s an improvement

Google keeps improving Android. Android version 2.2 is one of the most important releases ever – it speeds up the whole phone (every game, every app, runs noticeably faster), along with bugfixes and...

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Sony love…

Despite this week’s PR disaster for Sony Ericsson, their new Android phone (due out soon) looks fantastic: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2011/01/06/next-step-%e2%80%93-xperia%e2%84%a2-arc/...

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ngmoco … really worth $400m? Hmm

Another interesting post from Dan Lee Rogers on whether the money paid for ngmoco last year was reasonable. (hint: Dan is clearly rather doubtful, IMHO with good reason) E.g. … Further, Ms. Namba...

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I’ve got an idea; I’ll give you 25%…

…if you: finish it and design it and build it and test it and refine it and launch it and sell it and market it …for me. This was the tempting offer whispered in my ear this evening by a hard-up...

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iPhone themes for your website: Say it with XKCD

Oh, yes: http://xkcd.com/869/ …please, FOR THE CHILDREN, don’t put a “make it look like an iPhone app, but remove 90% of the content” theme on your website.

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Top steps tips viral mobile iphone success profit

Did that get your attention? In the last day or so, I’ve seen a barrage of crap on this topic – much of it ACTIVELY destructive (it’ll make your iPhone apps less successful than if you didn’t do it!)....

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The ultimate excuse for iOS developers…

Rebooting again, everything killed thanks to Xcode4, I thought of xkcd’s comic on “compiling”, and a little modification came to mind: Appropriately, working with Xcode3 often suffered from time wasted...

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Apple: “Yes, we have iPhones in stock. But you can’t buy them”

Apple UK continues to show that they don’t have a clue how to operate a retail operation. We’ve got an app that’s demoing today and tomorrow, and it would help if I had an extra iPhone4 to run it on....

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Apple UK Contact Email Address

…because Apple hates giving customer support, and buried this address deep in their website, in a tiny font where it’s almost impossible to find: contactus.uk@euro.apple.com …and they just screwed-up...

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We don’t need no AAA console studios

Over the past couple of years, there’s been much coverage within the games-industry press about the fall and fall of the UK games industry. Nicholas Lovell has done a particularly good job of tracking...

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Google Street-View on iPhone: a lesson in UX design

Today I finally discovered that the iPhone has StreetView. That means it’s only taken me THREE YEARS to find this secret feature that Google has worked very hard to make sure no-one ever uses. The best...

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Throw away the iPhone? or throw away Gmail? Decisions, decisions…

For the past week, my iPhone’s have been unable to use Gmail. After approximately 4 hours, gmail locks you out of IMAP completely, unless/until you force-kill Apple’s mail client. The problem is … if...

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