Fifteen years ago I started a podcast called Developing Perspective. It was “never longer than 15 minutes” and chronicled my journey of becoming an indie app developer. I did that for around four years and then joined up with Marco Arment to do a show on the same topic called Under the Radar . We did that together for…
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I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away from civilization. The most important habit I’ve found for not getting lost is to be very…
Last week at WWDC I was extraordinarily fortunate to be one of the very few people in the world to try out Vision Pro for myself. The 30 minute session I had with it has been described in tremendous depth in lots of places (the best likely being Myke’s discussion on Cortex ), so I won’t go into the content of that…
I was looking through my iPhone device analytics as I plan my iOS 13 updates and noticed something that really jumped out at me.
It is no secret that the vast majority of revenues being made today in the App Store are via consumable based “Free”-to-Play games. These have sat atop the Top Grossing charts for a long time now. Last month at WWDC Apple announced that it had paid out $5 billion in the last year to developers, with clearly much of…