If you follow this blog, you know that we made a ton of new announcements this week (new products, pricing, web sites, logos, etc.). Last Friday, we had a little pre-release party that inevitably led to a few of us taping our iPhones to nerf guns. This was a memorable battle: By the way, we’re hiring! [...]
When the iPhone App Store launched, iPhone developers were impressively rewarded for their hard work and determination to get their apps on the App Store on launch day. Reading through a number of the iPhone/iPod/iPad developer groups, a similar level of excitement exists for the launch of the iPad, but unfortunately, that enthusiasm is going [...]
A quick list of my predictions for Apple’s event later this week: Tablet device with following specs: Apple will not provide CPU or RAM specs as it will consider such specs unimportant (no need to confuse consumers) 10″ display with multi-touch Storage will be flash-based – 64 to 128 GB It will have built-in front-facing [...]
In The Developer’s Incentive to ship, I talk about how at my company, Axosoft, we drive and motivate our software engineers to ship software. Besides the standards of a good work environment, free snacks, drinks and state-of-the-art equipment, we also do something that’s a bit out of the ordinary: After every major release of our [...]
Last week, we sent out a carefully crafted survey to our customer list hoping that we’d get about 40 or 50 responses to help us better understand what we’re doing right and what areas we could improve. To our surprise, we received an overwhelming response from over 360 customers who completed a fairly lengthy, 20+ [...]
If you’re a developer, your next machine will be a Mac. Here’s why: iPhone Development can only be done on a Mac. What, were you expecting a #2? No need! #1 is sufficient reason. “But what if I don’t plan to develop for the iPhone?” you ask. It’s called hedging your bets. The fact is [...]
Back in 1984, Apple was on top of the computing world with top-notch sexy hardware and it partnered with Microsoft for some top-notch [not so] sexy practical software. It was a winning combination for both Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft’s strategy in 1984 was hardware agnostic making its software available on any popular platform. Apple’s strategy [...]
Disruptive technologies are those technologies that brew up independently under the radar until all of a sudden they take over well established mainstream industries. And, here’s my take on the biggest disruptive technology currently sitting under our noses, err…in our pockets: The Apple iPhone, and it’s potential to replace the traditional desktop / laptop computer. [...]