Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

Can’t Catch Me

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

 
The future of software is on the web. That’s what they keep telling me. I just smile, and say “I don’t think so. There will always be compelling technologies on the desktop.” I believe this, but I admit it carries an odor of blind loyalty to my comfort zone.
People who argue the other side have [...]

Guest Post On TUAW

Friday, December 4th, 2009

The folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog were kind enough to invite me to write a guest post about my experience at the recent Apple iPhone Tech Talks in New York City:

Inside view of the iPhone Tech Talks from Daniel Jalkut

Thanks to Mike Rose for approaching me about writing this up!

App Store Mercenaries

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The latest ridiculous App Store power-play to make it into the public limelight is Apple’s alleged censoring of Ninjawords, an iPhone interface to a community-edited dictionary called Wiktionary. Before being approved, even as a 17+ rated title, the app’s developers were asked to remove specific words from the dictionary’s index.

(Edit 8/6/2009: Since I wrote this [...]

Touch And Go Pricing

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

There has been much debate in the iPhone developer community about the price of applications for sale in Apple’s App Store. These prices are trending cheaper and cheaper, such that even products of considerable complexity are often available for just $1 or $2. I have myself experimented with selling a dirt-cheap and dead-simple application, [...]