From Brent Simmons’ post: Why I Love Indies and You Do Too: I’ve noticed something obvious about popular music — it’s almost never instrumental. There’s always a human voice singing a melody. We humans love human voices. That’s what we get from indies that we don’t get from corporations. We get that human voice and the emotional …
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July 2014: We Noticed Indie Died
It seems July 2014 may go down as the month when we realized being an indie (iOS) developer is no longer feasible. It’s not that something suddenly happened, rather, we collectively realized the same thing: there’s no way to make a living doing this. Rather than making a living off of developing one or two …
Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything | Mobile – CNET News
Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything | Mobile – CNET News. No surprise. Samsung, with the lion’s share of Android marketshare, is positioning itself to usurp power and control from Google. Considering their ambitions, this is their only hope.
Apples Answer on Upgrade Pricing
From David Smith Logic Pro X is a Major with a capital M update to their professional audio editing suite. It appears to represent a significant investment in both time and resources. So how is it being sold, especially to people who already paid $200 for the previous version Logic Pro 9? It is a …
Apples Answer on Upgrade Pricing
From David Smith Logic Pro X is a Major with a capital M update to their professional audio editing suite. It appears to represent a significant investment in both time and resources. So how is it being sold, especially to people who already paid $200 for the previous version Logic Pro 9? It is a …
Samsung Dangling the Carrot for Tizen Devs
Samsung offers $4 million bounty to populate Tizen app store. So, Samsung is offering $4M to developers to write apps for the Tizen platform. The kicker – Tizen isn’t Android. It’s a linux-based mobile OS that focuses on hybrid web technologies, much like WebOS. Let’s put the news into some perspective: Samsung is undisputedly the …
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Topping the charts and racing to the bottom
Topping the charts and racing to the bottom It’s no surprise that “FREE” will get you more downloads and better rankings. The problem is that free isn’t a sustainable business model. EDIT : Here’s a little follow-up from Marco on June 17th.
Your App Idea
This is first part in the series, How to Develop an App. The series will discuss various aspects of taking an idea for an app and turning it into an actual product. I’ve had the pleasure of working on many great projects with a variety of clients over the years. As each client and project …
Amberjack Media, RevealCMS
It’s official – I’m now Amberjack Media (amberjackmedia.com). The papers from the city just arrived, but the process with officially registering the DBA with the county is not yet complete. I have the domain, but it’s not yet set-up with any hosting space just yet. On another note, I’ve named the CMS i’m working on: …