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You Guys Are Millionaires Right?

Then you see an app like ’101 sex positions’ or ’301 Fart Noises’ reach the lofty heights of App Store Success. They spent a week on a gimmick and made bank, you spent 6 months building an app of utility and are struggling. Let’s not even get into the long debates you get into with people about whether they should buy your $1.99 app. People will spend hours researching a $2 purchase, browsing reviews, emailing the developer, checking online forums. Then they will go to a coffee shop they’ve never been before and buy a $4 coffee. From the developer they expect unlimited support, unlimited free updates. From the coffee shop they expect nothing except mediocre coffee.

Some interesting insights and opinion from a small independent iPhone & ruby on rails developer. Link

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Less updates…

You might have noticed that i’m posting less frequently in the last couple of days. Reason is quite simple. I’m back from vacation on a new project. This means simply that i have less time to update the blog.

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iPod touch usage

Using my iPod touch (2nd gen) as my new home phone thanks to the Fritz!App Fon App. I also using my iPod less for listening to music but more for audio podcasts (e.g. CCC) and iTunes U. Great free content available under iTunes U. Negative is the short battery life, especially when using wifi and the limited storage of 16GB. Beside of that, the touch provides value for money.

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Side notes

  • Currently considering to buy a NAS (Synology DS211J + 2x 3TB HDs in a Raid 1 configuration). Any opinions?
  • Any recommendations for a good (free) Mac OS FTP client?
  • A embedded 3G Modem would be a huge plus for the MacBook Air
  • Using prefetching for the blog  (currently only supported in Firefox and Chrome)
  • Ideas for disruptive innovations: <100$ iPhone, Abandon DRM, Symetrical Access Bandwidth…

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Woah!

I just had a chance to look at a couple of pictures on my Dell 1080 monitor. Pics are looking even better than on the MBA13. The colours, the details…just awesome.

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