April 2010
6 posts
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Just a Clock — The WebApp Experiment
App Store Astroturf
This clock thing has taken on a life of its own: A Macworld story, a number of other blog posts, yesterday my blog made the top 10 at reddit.com, and I’ve received a truly shocking amount of email about it too.
I seem to have hit on a touchy subject, although the jury is still out on whether this is all real, or just a bit of astroturf set alight in a fanboy flame...
Follow up on my app store rejection
First, I want to say that I’m sorry if you’ve been following this. My little clock doesn’t really deserve the attention that it got in the press. The opaque and seemingly robotic rejections from the App store can be frustrating, and this blog is my outlet. If you’re reading it, you’ve been warned.
The full story is that after the second rejection, I wrote an...
isaiah’s weblog: Apple won't give you the time of... →
oliyoung:
How is that any different from SwissRailwayClock ?
The other day I went hunting through the App Store hoping to find a nice clock for the iPad that I could turn on while it was sitting on my desk. To my surprise, there really wasn’t anything that appealed to me. There are a handful of really nice digital clocks, but I prefer analog. And the iPad’s…
The swiss railway clock...
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Apple won't give you the time of day.
Update: Dear hoards of people reading this post. Please read the conclusion over here too. Apple was nice enough to explain things on the phone and made things quite clear and easy to understand. It was more of a misunderstanding than anything else.
The other day I went hunting through the App Store hoping to find a nice clock for the iPad that I could turn on while it was sitting on my...
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Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!
Just to fill you in, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Twitter recently bought Atebits, Loren Brichter’s company that makes Tweetie, the wildly successful Twitter client for iPhone and Mac OS X. The iPhone version will be renamed to Twitter for iPhone; the Mac version will maintain the Tweetie name; both will be re-released as freeware.
My reactions
A bunch of people have...
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An afternoon with an iPad
I drove down to the Apple store this morning and picked up an iPad. I like the in-store buying feeling and it removes any chance of UPS screwing me. I got 16GB version, I couldn’t think of a reason to buy more. My goal, as always, is to write software for it — but it’s also just a cool gadget and I can’t resist.
I waited in line for about 20 or 30 minutes. It was...
