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TUAW Live Chat with App Store developers

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Oct 9th, 2009

How hard is it to make a living at App Store? Are the naysayers right? Do you need a full-fledged business plan and established company even to step through the door? Or can you make it as an independent, finding your own fortune and success. Today, TUAW talks to a handful of App Store developers to hear their stories and discuss their experience.

Today's scheduled panelists include Bryan Mitchell, author of the extremely successful Geared game for iPhone, Scott Lawrence, developer of LlamaSlate, LlamaClock, among others, Darrel Plant, creator of Bedeviled, a puzzle game, Youssef Francis of Brancipater, developers of FlowChat (an iPhone IRC client), and Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the best Nintendo emulator that never made it to App Store, plus an Amber Alert app that did. Jonathan is also the author of several iPhone books.

We'll be chatting about the challenges and rewards of App Store: how the little guy can make it big, and how the little guy can get beat down. Join us for this live chat and bring your questions.

Read on for the chat

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Tags: App Store, AppStore, Bryan Mitchell, BryanMitchell, Darrel Plant, DarrelPlant, Developers, Livechat, Llamas, Real stories, RealStories, Scott Lawrence, ScottLawrence, Zdziarski

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Bad Apple, iPhone

Saurik live chat: Learn about Apple's new signature server

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Sep 24th, 2009

Something new, unexpected, and possibly worrying has popped up in iTunes. iTunes now "calls home" to the Apple mothership whenever you restore an iPhone or iPod touch. It tells you that it's "Verifying restore with Apple...", checking your device identifier and the firmware with Apple's new signature server.

Today, TUAW has the pleasure of talking with Jay Freeman, otherwise known as "Saurik", the developer of Cydia. Saurik has constructed a server that duplicates Apple's functionality, ensuring that you'll be able to downgrade your iPhone or iPod in the future, even if you have not jailbroken your device. This topic is for all iPhone users, regardless of whether they use jailbreaking. Please join us with your questions and comments as we hear from Freeman about why this move matters to you. Read on to see the full live chat transcript.

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Tags: Big brother, BigBrother, Cydia, Jay Freeman, JayFreeman, Live chat, LiveChat, Saurik, Signature Server, SignatureServer

Filed under: Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage

Announcement: Saurik live chat at 4:15 (ET) today

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Sep 24th, 2009

Please join us this afternoon at 4:15 Eastern for a live chat with Jay "Saurik" Freeman. Jay is going to talk to us about Apple's new signature server and what that means to you as an iPod or iPhone owner.

Have you noticed a new message in iTunes when you restore an iPhone or iPod touch? "Verifying restore with Apple..."? iTunes is now checking your unit against a registered database and deciding whether to allow you to install your firmware or not. Potentially, Apple could disallow downgrades to previous firmware versions. According to Freeman, this move allows Apple to "recall existing firmwares by keeping people from restoring to them in the future. To do this they simply would refuse to ever sign, for example, iPhone OS 3.0 again."

Freeman will explain why this is a real problem to both the standard App Store community and to the jailbreak community. Join us with your questions.

Tags: announcements, Jay Freeman, JayFreeman, live chat, LiveChat, Saurik

Filed under: Developer

Rogue Amoeba Live Chat!

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Apr 8th, 2008

What do you take when you mix mutant powers, the right to bear arms and a bad case of dysentery? Why, Rogue Amoeba of course! TUAW is delighted to host Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba today as we chat about Apple and its developer program. Today we discuss how Apple makes third party development pure Heaven -- and pure Hell. Please join us in the chat, where we will be talking and taking questions from TUAW readers.

Note that if you want to disable the 'chirp' from the chat widget or turn off the autoscroll feature, those options are at the bottom of the chat window -- here's what they look like turned OFF:

Tags: CoverItLive, Live Chat, LiveChat, Rogue Amoeba, RogueAmoeba

Filed under: TUAW Business, Developer

Live blog with Rogue Amoeba, Tuesday morning

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Apr 7th, 2008

Rogue Amoeba. They're unicellular. They're Mac developers. They're armed. Please join us tomorrow morning at approximately 11:30 am ET as TUAW chats with Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba and hopefully assorted colleagues. Our topic is: "How Apple Makes 3rd Party Development Pure Heaven. And Pure Hell."

As with last week's iPwned live chat, we'll be using CoverItLive's in-blog widget. You'll be able to participate directly from TUAW's front page. If you hear chimes during the chat, you should be able to turn off the sound within CoverItLive.

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