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Free and Low-Cost Apps Writes David Barnard of App Cubby: The pool of time users spend on smartphones is staggering and growing rapidly, but it is not infinite. The more time people spend with useful/entertaining free apps, the less need they have to actually pay for apps. That doesn’t mean people will never pay for [...]

I grew up — meaning learned to program — in the halcyon days of Apple versus Microsoft. In those days, as developers, we spoke about developing for an operating system platform. You either wrote Microsoft/DOS software or Apple II/DOS software. You either wrote Mac OS software or Windows software. And all devices that used each [...]

Android Platform Versions In my last post I commented that the restrictions imposed on iOS beta apps tilted the balance to Android development if I was doing both and didn’t have a reason to release iOS first. Not an hour later, some device info comes out that drops an elephant on the iOS side of [...]

App Developers Skirt Apple’s Limits With Work-Arounds If you didn’t know, Apple restricts developers to 100 beta devices per year. That isn’t 100 per app. That’s 100 per company per year. And deleting devices doesn’t give you back devices until the next year. Infinity Softworks has 10 apps plus two new ones in development. That [...]

RIM leaning toward new chairman: sources The Financial Times reported yesterday that RIM was likely removing co-Chairmen Mike Laziridis’ and Jim Balsillie’s titles, installing an independent chairperson. The two would remain co-CEOs. There is a great story in the Steve Jobs biography involving Larry Ellison of Oracle, Gil Amelio who was at the time CEO [...]