App Store Economics, Part 1

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the world. At least, of the one some of us kept affection for. At the very least, of the one we’ve got used to. Anyway. The big bad crisis of good old capitalism is here and now. It’s time to reassess our work and our pay, time to move the goalposts around a bit while panic keeps others so busy that they won’t notice.

What about App Store? Is it a market vulnerable enough to drive coders out of business? Is it even a kind of market we fully understand?
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Mobile Lines 1.3 Update

One more refresh.

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Mobile Lines 1.2 Update

Another refresh bringing both bug fixes and new features. Read more »

Local App Store Success

Hot on the heels of Mobile Lines 1.1 update here comes a certain rise in popularity. As I’m writing this post, Mobile Lines has reached #41 in Top Paid Games and #90 in Top Paid Apps in the Russian App Store.
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Mobile Lines 1.1 Update

After a whole week in review the update is finally out. There’s a lot in it. Read more »

iPhone Crash Logs

Sometimes programs crash. This annoys users and developers alike. Users are frustrated because they cannot use crashing software, developers are frustrated because they have to hunt bugs instead of doing something creative and rewarding. How do we communicate if an iPhone application crashes? Read more »

Lines in App Store

I’m happy to introduce a version of Lines for iPhone/iPod Touch. Here are the product page and its App Store link. Read more »

Van Der Graaf Generator in Moscow

Wow. Just wow.

Warning: a lot of photos. Sorry for the quality - I dared not use the camera light.

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Screen Dimmer 2.2

The new version is Leopard-only. Get it right now. The Tiger-compatible version is also available. The archive contains the obligatory Read Me file which you have to read carefully.
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Lines update

At long last I have good news. Lines got a minor update which, I confess, is overdue. I managed to fix a couple of obscure bugs that bothered a lot of people but manifested themselves only now and then. It’s now a universal binary too. And it requires Tiger.
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