I posted an interview with Brent Simmons to MobileOrchard.
Brent’s the creator of the popular NetNewsWire feed reader for the iPhone and Mac.
Brent gives a good interview. Topics include adapting a desktop UI to the phone, making a living doing this stuff, and his “anti-packrat” compulsion. Have a listen!
I’ve just launched Mobile Orchard Profiles, a wiki-like site featuring profiles and endorsements of iPhone developers.
The launch announcement covers the details. I’ll summarize here:
It’s hard to prove you’re a capable developer in a brand-new tech. Nobody’s got years of experience or a deep showcase of examples to point to. The site help show credibility by letting developers endorse other developers. Being in good company is a great way to be credible!
Update: as of right now, the site’s #3 on
I posted a pair of interviews to the Mobile Orchard Podcast:
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The first interview is with Padraig Kennedy, author of a very useful iPhone/iPod Touch backup decoder.
The second interview is with Pete Schwamb, creator of an app that can tell you the temperature by analyzing the sounds of crickets chirping.
There’s been a lot of talk about pricing iPhone applications.
I was curious about correlating price and popularity within product categories. Peter Cooper thought it’d probably follow a Zipf-like distribution, with more expensive apps falling off quickly.
Turns out, it kind of does and it kind of doesn’t. By and large, cheaper apps are more popular. That said, in every category there are exceptions: there are apps that are way more popular than they should be for their price. Can better apps fetch more?
While working on this, I started experimenting with combining price and popularity. Multiply them together and you should get a relative ranking of who is making the most, the second most, etc. You can’t get absolute numbers, but as a relative gauge it’s interesting.
Anyway, we’re working on a series of articles about this that’ll be posted to Mobile Orchard. The first one, Price and Popularity: The iPhone App Store’s Data Show Who’s Making The Most Money, went up today.
Kathy Grayson of the Business Journal interviewed me about
The article came out in this week’s issue. It’s a great article and features some kind words from Damon Allison and Tom O’Neill. Read it here.
Update: WCCO radio picked up the story for their “Business Brief” which you can hear here.