App Anarchy

Posted on Sunday, 11th April 2010 by Keith Beucler

In my previous post, An Anarchist In A Walled Garden, I discussed Apple’s apparent banning of all third party development tools. Since my development team is small, we don’t have the resources to port our apps to the different mobile platforms. Coding of apps is a relatively small but significant part of app development. Apple [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 10th April 2010 by Keith Beucler

So who exactly is this banning of third party tools good for? Surely not for developers. Is it good for Apple? Probably not. So what would drive Apple to take these tools away from developers? In one word, ego

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Posted on Saturday, 13th March 2010 by Keith Beucler

The iPad isn’t for geeks, it’s for my mom. My point is that when we develop for the iPad we have to leave our power user mentality behind and create apps for the masses.
Don’t be concerned that your app doesn’t do everything, make sure your app does one thing and does it beautifully.

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