Monthly Archives: July 2015

Episode 49 – We Say Ship it!

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This week we discuss Apple Music prompted by Jim Dalrymple’s online rant. Why do you need to manage your music when Apple will do it for you? We discuss Apple’s Q3 results and Apple’s awkward children the Mac App Store, the iPod and iPad – and how they are used. Picks this week are KeroBlaster,  Mechanize for Ruby and App Store Health Check.

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Episode 48 – Preparing for Disaster & Other Vestigial Tales

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This week we talk about the new 6th Generation iPod Touch as well as the oddity of continuing cellular minutes & data charges. We follow up on REPL as it relates to Swift scripting on the command line. We discuss the new lower app pricing tier in emerging markets. Picks: Matt Luedke’s Free App Preview Music, AltConf 2015 and Swift Summit videos.

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Episode 47 – Psst! Wanna Buy an App?

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We continue the discussion on the value of apps, how apps are priced and the cost of building apps in terms of time and effort. We look at examples of relatively successful indie apps. We discuss some of our own experiences with marketing, pricing, sales, discoverability, and whether ads are beneficial in apps.

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  • MacUpdate Developer Bundle – on sale until July 13, 2015
  • Dash, Paw, Code Runner

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Episode 46 – Oh Canada Edition

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Aaron and Greg dig deep into CloudKit and how Aaron used it in the creation of Magpie. They discuss the CKNotifications, sharing code between iOS and OS X, the use on FMDB to manage the data model, iOS 8 share extensions and target conditionals. We discuss Brent Simmons post on building apps with Love and a couple of follow up articles. We talk about becoming successful like Omni Group, AgileBits, Flexibits, Daniel Jalkut. What does success look like. How do you measure a senior developer. We talk about finding quality poutine, chocolate mousse and espresso. Picks: Screens, Apple RSVP and Background Backup.

Geese Squad game illustrations by Peter Cook

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