Posts Tagged “Business”

Experimenting With App Store Search Ads October 6, 2016
Omni’s IAP Trials and Upgrade Discounts (1)September 30, 2016
The State of Apple Music and Streaming September 29, 2016
Overcast Tries Ads (1)September 28, 2016
Rich Siegel Interview September 26, 2016
Evolving App Store Business Models September 7, 2016
App Store Subscriptions Clarification September 7, 2016
Apple, Ireland, and the EU (2)August 30, 2016
Five Years of Tim Cook’s Apple in Charts August 26, 2016
Vesper Shutting Down (1)August 22, 2016
Chip Card Nightmares (3)August 22, 2016
Mac App Store Developer Survey (1)August 20, 2016
Twitter Verification August 12, 2016
Kagi, RIP (1)August 1, 2016
Verizon Acquires Yahoo (4)July 26, 2016
Exploring the App Store’s Top Grossing Chart July 24, 2016
Pinboard Turns Seven July 14, 2016
Amazon’s Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (4)July 12, 2016
The Pokémon Go Phenomenon (1)July 11, 2016
Mozilla-Yahoo Contract Clause July 8, 2016
BBEdit 11.6 (1)July 5, 2016
Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber July 2, 2016
Spotify Update Rejected From the App Store (1)July 1, 2016
Rest in Motion July 1, 2016
Script Debugger 6 June 22, 2016
End of the Road for MacNN (1)June 20, 2016
CloudKit and Map Kit for Gatekeeper Apps (3)June 16, 2016
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn June 16, 2016
Pre-WWDC App Store Changes (13)June 9, 2016
New Sketch 4.0 Licensing Model June 8, 2016
E.W. Scripps Buys Podcast Company Stitcher June 7, 2016
Twitterrific Adds Patronage June 3, 2016
Monument Valley: iOS 42% of Downloads But 73% of Revenue May 23, 2016
94% of App Store Revenue Comes From the Top 1% May 23, 2016
Separate, Support, Serve May 20, 2016
Google Assistant May 19, 2016
Apple Shortening App Review Times (1)May 13, 2016
“Please Rate My App” Dialogs May 11, 2016
Apple’s Actual Role in Podcasting May 9, 2016
App Store Search Is Currently Broken (2)May 5, 2016
Intel Splits on Atom May 3, 2016
Photosmith Development Ends May 3, 2016
App Store Educational “Discount” (15)April 30, 2016
Apple’s Earnings and the iPhone Upgrade Cycle (2)April 29, 2016
Amazon Kindle Unlimited Scammers April 28, 2016
Antitrust and Aggregation April 26, 2016
Our Software Must Get Better April 20, 2016
Arment’s Advice (3)April 16, 2016
Paid App Store Search (7)April 15, 2016
Over 70% of App Store Purchases Are for Games (3)April 14, 2016
TextExpander Adjustments (2)April 12, 2016
Jeff Bezos on Decision Making April 12, 2016
Fake Ads as a Business Model April 11, 2016
TextExpander 6 and TextExpander.com (56)April 6, 2016
Early Apple Retail Adventures April 4, 2016
Regis McKenna’s 1976 Notebook April 2, 2016
IFTTT Drops Pinboard and App.net, Blames Them March 29, 2016
Adobe Jumps the Shark (6)March 23, 2016
Andy Grove, RIP March 22, 2016
Firewatch: One Month Later March 19, 2016
Slopes 2.0 Business Model Experiment March 16, 2016
Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire (4)March 15, 2016
Overcast 2.5 (6)March 15, 2016
What No Indie Developer Wants to Hear About the App Store (1)March 11, 2016
Intuit Sells Quicken to H.I.G. Capital March 11, 2016
Life and Death in the App Store (4)March 2, 2016
Legal Issues for Developers March 2, 2016
App Review Needs Big Improvements March 1, 2016
The End of Standardized Platforms February 26, 2016
Amazon Increases Free Shipping Threshold February 22, 2016
Priorities in a Time of Plenty February 20, 2016
Macs 10% Share of Notebook Market (1)February 19, 2016
Cupertino’s Chief Chipmaker, Johny Srouji February 18, 2016
What It’s Like to Take on Venture Capital Investment (1)February 8, 2016
Make Money Outside the Mac App Store February 2, 2016
Sunsetting Parse (8)January 30, 2016
VMware Fusion (3)January 30, 2016
The 2015 Panic Report (1)January 29, 2016
Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some VIP Users (1)January 26, 2016
Not Out to Get You January 22, 2016
Once Bitten (1)January 20, 2016
The Past, Present, and Future of Sketch January 16, 2016
Five Years of Mac App Store (1)January 7, 2016
Nintendo, Two Years Later January 5, 2016
Netflix’s New Compression Strategy December 23, 2015
Record Adobe Revenue (1)December 14, 2015
The Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products December 11, 2015
Launching PDF Expert for Mac December 4, 2015
The Success of ARM December 3, 2015
Sketch Leaving the Mac App Store (23)December 1, 2015
Quicken 2015 Switches From Mac App Store to Direct Updates (3)November 24, 2015
Ranchero SpotLight November 24, 2015
Saving the iPad November 15, 2015
What Goes Up November 14, 2015
The Depressing Effect of Bug Bounties November 14, 2015
Gene Amdahl, RIP November 14, 2015
Castro 1.5 November 12, 2015
The Mac App Store: With Convenience Comes Compromise (4)November 10, 2015
Inside Apple’s Perfectionism Machine (1)October 28, 2015
No Longer Good, Better, Best (4)October 21, 2015
When Businesses Grow to Become Dysfunctional (1)October 21, 2015
Non-Payment for Bundle Sales October 14, 2015
FogBugz, JIRA, and Wasabi (3)October 13, 2015
More International Taxes on Software Sales October 13, 2015
Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today (1)October 11, 2015
Overcast 2 (4)October 9, 2015
Apple’s 30% App Store Fee on Refunds (1)October 4, 2015
Subscription iPhones September 14, 2015
Macworld UK Ends Print Magazine September 11, 2015
iPad Pro (10)September 10, 2015
What Publishers Should Know About iOS 9 September 1, 2015
How to Survive Working at Home (3)August 26, 2015
Ways to Think About Cars August 23, 2015
How Streaming Music Royalties Are Calculated August 21, 2015
Acorn 5 August 20, 2015
Windows 10’s New Licensing Scheme August 17, 2015
Fearing an Apple TV Service (1)August 16, 2015
Finding iPad’s Future (19)August 15, 2015
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace August 15, 2015
Google and Alphabet August 14, 2015
The Mac App Store, Paid Upgrades, and Trials (2)August 14, 2015
Peak App Care August 14, 2015
Planes, “Planes”, and Automated Fare Pricing August 14, 2015
The Appsmiths (2)August 1, 2015
Ember Leaves the Mac App Store July 27, 2015
Web Design: The First 100 Years July 23, 2015
My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team July 21, 2015
Apple vs. the PC Industry July 20, 2015
Adobe Replaces “Rank and Yank” With “Check In” July 15, 2015
92% of Smartphone Profits (2)July 14, 2015
Safari Content Blocker and Web Advertising (9)July 12, 2015
ComiXology 3.7 Makes the Best of the Amazon/Apple Situation (3)July 7, 2015
The Age of Writing iOS Apps for Love (2)June 30, 2015
Taylor Swift vs. Apple Music (1)June 22, 2015
Instacast Discontinued (2)June 19, 2015
Freemium Is Hard June 12, 2015
The Beginning of the End for Smartphone Subsidies? (13)June 5, 2015
Tim Cook on Encryption, Privacy (1)June 3, 2015
On Performance Reviews May 26, 2015
Firing Well (1)May 19, 2015
Verizon-AOL May 14, 2015
Redacted for Mac Launch May 8, 2015
bit.ly Now Silently Inserts Affiliate Codes/Cookies (1)May 8, 2015
Customer Service and Security May 7, 2015
Problems With Multiple Apps (1)May 6, 2015
Beyond Open Source May 6, 2015
App Business Tips May 4, 2015
Moving Averages and the iPad (1)May 1, 2015
Microsoft’s New Middleware: Islandwood and Astoria (3)April 30, 2015
Microsoft Visual Studio Code April 30, 2015
Risky Business April 24, 2015
Thanks (1)April 23, 2015
Et Tu, Tim? (1)April 10, 2015
Mac App Store Licensing and Copy Protection (10)April 8, 2015
Apple Pay Exposes Insecure Bank Policies March 30, 2015
Commoditized Complements and Fear of Apple (3)March 25, 2015
Fantastical 2 for Mac (2)March 25, 2015
Tech Is Dead March 11, 2015
The Disconnect Between Publishers and Consumers March 10, 2015
Sustainable Software (1)March 4, 2015
Turning Google Into a Dumb Pipe February 10, 2015
The IOU of iOS (2)February 1, 2015
The Unethical Business Practices of eFax (1)January 31, 2015
Craft Apps January 31, 2015
The Future of No Thirst Software January 24, 2015
Organ Banked January 23, 2015
The Shape of the App Store January 20, 2015
MacUser UK Closes January 18, 2015
How Amazon Tricks You Into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices January 18, 2015
iOS App Sales Data (1)January 17, 2015
Apple Introduces App Store Refunds (1)January 12, 2015
The 2014 Panic Report (5)January 6, 2015
The Benefits of Selling Software Outside the Mac App Store January 4, 2015
A Dozen Things Tren Griffin Learned From Steve Jobs About Business January 4, 2015
2015: The Year of Android (5)December 21, 2014
Crossy Road December 21, 2014
Apple App Store Affiliate Payments (1)December 21, 2014
Bad Code Isn’t Technical Debt, It’s an Unhedged Call Option December 21, 2014
Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s (1)December 17, 2014
Software Subscriptions December 15, 2014
PDFpen 2 and Paid Upgrades via App Store Bundles (3)December 6, 2014
Script Debugger’s 20th Anniversary (3)December 4, 2014
Professional App Pricing December 3, 2014
Pricing Determines Your Business November 22, 2014
Scaling Customer Service by Fixing Things Twice November 21, 2014
PCalc Piracy (8)November 20, 2014
Repurposing the Titanic October 24, 2014
16 GB (1)October 22, 2014
BBEdit Leaving the Mac App Store (20)October 12, 2014
The Lost Art of Software Testing (1)September 21, 2014
Apple Pay (9)September 10, 2014
Macworld Layoffs (4)September 10, 2014
Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media September 1, 2014
Amazon vs. Hachette August 23, 2014
Amazon’s Strategy: Horizontal Company, Vertical Devices August 17, 2014
App Disillusionment August 1, 2014
The Indie Game Bubble Is Popping July 31, 2014
Making Money on Apps July 31, 2014
Building a Business, Not an App (1)July 31, 2014
A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year (2)July 28, 2014
Who at the Table is an Indie iOS Developer? (2)July 26, 2014
Apple “Frustrated” That “People Don’t Want to Pay Anything” (7)July 26, 2014
The Magic Question That Turns Transactions Into Relationships (2)July 24, 2014
The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable July 22, 2014
Why Your Comcast Rep Is Yelling at You July 17, 2014
Overcast 1.0 (6)July 16, 2014
Pixar Wage-Fixing Cartel July 11, 2014
The Indie Life (4)July 9, 2014
App Store Bundles as an Upgrade Path (1)June 13, 2014
Ad Experiments: Platform Targeting May 30, 2014
Rich Siegel on BBEdit May 22, 2014
Writers Feel an Amazon-Hachette Spat (1)May 15, 2014
What Happened at NewsGator May 12, 2014
How Apple Beats the Demise of Music Downloads (2)May 12, 2014
App.net State of the Union (1)May 6, 2014
17 Services for Hosting and Business April 30, 2014
Apple/Google Hiring Lawsuit, Settled (7)April 27, 2014
comiXology Removes In-App Purchase (3)April 26, 2014
iOS 7.1.1 App Store Labels Apps With In-App Purchases April 22, 2014
The Birth of Amazon.com (1)April 10, 2014
Facebook’s Predicament March 28, 2014
Apple/Google Hiring Lawsuit (2)March 28, 2014
Box’s IPO and S-1 March 27, 2014
Negotiating With Steve Jobs About WriteNow March 27, 2014
The App Stores Are Not “Long Tail” February 28, 2014
Life Outside the Mac App Store (1)February 26, 2014
Core Intuition Jobs February 24, 2014
The Netflix/Comcast Deal (6)February 24, 2014
Slow Updater Purchasing Habits (3)February 14, 2014
Apple Passes Microsoft February 13, 2014
Hopper Disassembler 3.0 (6)February 13, 2014
Scriptnotes on Final Draft (2)February 10, 2014
Begging for App Ratings (4)February 5, 2014
Oral History of Adele Goldberg January 22, 2014
Frere-Jones Sues Hoefler January 21, 2014
Shaping the App Store January 15, 2014
“Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories January 10, 2014
Fortunate Bear’s Future January 8, 2014
Hog Bay Software’s Future (3)January 8, 2014
Copying Microsoft’s Stack Ranking Performance Review System November 12, 2013
Masters of Doom October 18, 2013
App Store Reviews (2)October 15, 2013
Upgrade Pricing via Multiple Apps, URL Schemes, and I-AP October 15, 2013
“Offers In-App Purchases” October 9, 2013
Sustainability and the Mac App Store (2)October 2, 2013
Underscore Price Dynamics (18)September 29, 2013
Tim O’Reilly’s Business Lessons September 17, 2013
Haystack’s 5 Indie Software Business Lessons (1)September 17, 2013
Jeff Bezos Quotes September 17, 2013
App Store Rule 11.9 (1)September 12, 2013
Unaligned Priorities September 12, 2013
An Upgrade Is a New App (1)September 6, 2013
The Gatekeeper and the Keymaster (10)September 5, 2013
Microsoft and Nokia September 4, 2013
Nintendo (3)August 29, 2013
OmniKeyMaster (10)August 28, 2013
Making Money with In-App Purchases August 1, 2013
Apple’s Answer on Upgrade Pricing (1)July 16, 2013
Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea (1)July 15, 2013
5 Years of App Store July 13, 2013
Unsustainable Productivity July 9, 2013
Sustainable Businesses on the App Store July 1, 2013
All the Apps Have Been Written June 24, 2013
Transferring App Ownership June 13, 2013
App Stories June 7, 2013
Free May 27, 2013
More In-Store iProduct Repairs (1)May 11, 2013
Can’t Buy a Thrill (2)April 14, 2013
Understanding App Store Pricing (1)April 1, 2013
The Future of Software Pricing March 14, 2013
Amazon, Apple, and the Beauty of Low Margins January 24, 2013
Good Enough September 20, 2012
Microsoft’s Downfall (1)July 7, 2012
Why Instapaper Free Is Taking an Extended Vacation (3)April 28, 2011
App Store Subscriptions (18)February 15, 2011
On Firing an Employee July 21, 2003

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