Jonathan Stark

Mobile strategy, training, and development.

Tag: Apple

SDK.Download != Developer

According to Apple, there are currently 600,000 Mac developers. If that’s true, then why are there only 250,000 active apps in the iTunes Store?

Make It Beautiful

I recently received the following question via email:

I’m quoting on an iPhone app for [an international company]. I’m yet to fully scope it out, but I’d really like to make it in Phonegap. And as much as I read that I shouldn’t be nervous about it… can’t help it. Tell me I shouldn’t be worried?

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Gearing Up to Build an iPad App?

Yours truly quoted in Poynter Institute article “Gearing Up to Build an iPad App? Consider a Mobile Web App First” by David Stanton.
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Why Apple Rejected Tweeps

I recently wrote a book for O’Reilly that teaches web designers and developers how to build native iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Objective-C. One of the chapters covers PhoneGap, which is an open source project that allows you to embed a web app inside of a native app. Among other things, [...]

Tittr makes Apple’s top ten list

As of 2:37 AM EST, Tittr is number 7 on Apple’s list of the ten most popular of social networking web applications for the iPhone.