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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

I was looking over some app store metrics tonight, in particular the breakdown of apps by category, and wondered if you could look at the breakdown of the top 500 paid apps by category and determine which categories were over or under served. The results were pretty interesting. Continue reading

What Apple Needs

So there’s been a lot of talk lately about Apple’s rejection of Podcaster from the App Store. Reaction has been almost universally negative and at least one noted developer has decided to discontinue developing iPhone software.
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My Sincere Thanks

While I was finishing up 5 Card Touch I started casting about for ideas for my next iPhone app. I got plenty of suggestions, but the most popular, and perhaps more convincingly, the app my wife wanted to see most was a slot machine.
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Happy App Store Day

This morning I woke up to the news that the iPhone App Store had gone live. So of course I quickly fired up iTunes to make sure my app was listed and there it was in all it’s video poker glory.
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