February 2010
13 posts
Apple and "1-Click Sex"
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Over the last few days, Apple has removed a number of apps from the app store that have, as the New York Times’s Jenna Wortham put it “sexually suggestive” material. There is plenty of speculation on the motives, such as VentureBeat’s idea that this is about winning over educators to the iPad. I think the actual explanation is likely to be simpler.
Browsing...
Apple and "1-Click Sex"
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Over the last few days, Apple has removed a number of apps from the app store that have, as the New York Times’s Jenna Wortham put it “sexually suggestive” material. There is plenty of speculation on the motives, such as VentureBeat’s idea that this is about winning over educators to the iPad. I think the actual explanation is likely to be simpler.
Browsing and discovery are...
Brainstorming a sane app review process
When AppStoreHQ launched the ability to submit new Mobile Web Apps a couple weeks ago we thrust ourselves into the app submission and review business. Because we’re still formulating how the Web App App Store should look and work, we haven’t put much effort into formalizing rules for app submissions.
However, Apple’s review process has always been problematic and the latest news...
Tremendously Tremendous : The Greatest Hockey Game...
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While NBC was airing “Ice Dancing,” their sister network MSNBC was airing one of the most exciting hockey games in recent history. It didn’t take a genius to figure the matching of the home host Canadian team taking on a surging USA team would be a compelling matchup. NBC realized the error of their ways in the final moments of the match, cutting off the two-man bobsled, but they...
AppStoreHQ: The Web App App Store
It’s no secret that I think mobile web apps will be huge. They might never supplant native apps (games are one place I see native apps winning for quite some time), but they’ll be a valuable part of the mobile app ecosystem. I’ve been linking to articles and writing about this trend for a couple weeks now on MobileHTML5.com. I also wrote about how iPad caused a surge of...
Helping out a fellow FC company with an experiment here: Cardone 30-2895
What makes Apple's App Store tick?
A couple months ago I had an idea. One of those, “I wonder if this would work” ideas. I talked it over with Chris and we both decided it was probably a good idea, but we weren’t quite sure (we needed feedback from potential users and customers), and we didn’t want to invest much time into it if it wasn’t what developers wanted. At the same time, we didn’t want...
Why did the iPad create such an interest in HTML5?
The most interesting thing to me about the iPad announcement a couple weeks ago has nothing to do with the device itself (at least, not directly). In my opinion, it’s that in the two or so weeks since the announcement, the amount of interest surrounding Mobile HTML5 apps has increased tremendously. Going into it, I would’ve expected the opposite to happen: people would’ve been...
The Relative Effects of Links
Sometimes Chris, Brett, and I feel like we get no press love for AppStoreHQ. We’re the biggest app discovery service, yet others are being covered way more frequently by the “elite” tech blogs. Truth be told, however, in less than a year we’ve received some great coverage, so we’re not complaining one bit; we just think we have such a great service with awesome...
Tutorial: Your First Mobile HTML5 App - The... →
I’m writing a tutorial about developing a very simple mobile HTML5 web app (while I’m learning a lot of the features myself). This is part 1, where I discuss the basics, new form elements, and geolocation.
Mobile HTML5 is so exciting to me. I’m crazy interested to see what innovative apps people will begin developing.
Tips for running a startup virtually
AppStoreHQ isn’t really a virtual company, but it’s close (especially for me): My co-founder and our first employee both work from our office in Seattle, while I work from my apartment in Los Angeles. It’s definitely an adjustment, but I we’re doing well with this set up.
Here are some tips that have helped us over the past year or so:
Begin by working together. Chris and...
On Mobile HTML5 vs Native Apps: An Overview
The future of mobile apps is definitely an area in which I have a lot to say. Specifically, my views around HTML5-based mobile web apps and native apps. Here’s my personal overview of the world as it is right now.
Overview
Chris and I often talk about how there’s a strong correlation between what’s happening right now in mobile apps and what was happening to the web around...
Tools We Use At AppStoreHQ
I said last week that February would be blogging month, but today came and I felt as though I had nothing to write. Still, I couldn’t start the month off on the wrong foot, so I’m beginning with a softball…
Every day we use at least a few tools to help run AppStoreHQ:
Google Spreadsheet: We have a “master” spreadsheet that helps us manage all the ideas, features,...