iPhone App 시장에서 빠져나가는 개발자들

일전에 iPhone의 성공으로 오히려 iPhone이 위험해진 상황을 언급했었다.
그런데 얼마지나지 않아서 바로 그러한 상황이 본격적으로 진행되고 있다.
다음의 ArsTechnica 기사를 보자.
Respected developers begin fleeing from App Store platform (Updated)
나만해도 2월인가 1월에 verizon과의 약정이 끝난다. 그냥 Verizon으로 남을까 하는 생각을 많이 하게 된다. 굳이 AT&T로 바꿔가면서까지 iPhone을 사용하고 싶은 생각이 점점 없어진다.
물론 iPhone은 상당한 매력을 가지고 있다. 가장 [...]

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iSight camera and iPhone simulator

Did I point out that there were problems with iPhone/iPod touch for developers?
Hmm.. I don’t remember it.
Anyway, one big problem is that developers should buy any new iPhone/iPod touch to developer for any added H/W features. I have an iPod touch, but have some idea of using a camera in an iPhone. Then… well.. I [...]

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iPhone Design Trend

YoungHo Kim posted a link to an article about design trend in iPhone S/W.
It is worth while to reading.
Thank you, YoungHo Kim!

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Memory management for NIB objects on iPhone and Mac

What is good about iPhone is that virtually all knowledge about Cocoa/Objective-C programming on Mac can be used. However, there are some differences, and they often make things confusing.
The most visible and famous one will be UIView / UIWindow vs. NSWindow / NSView.
As a Windows programmer ( hey.. why not? Most Mac programmers should be [...]

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iPhone의 성공으로 Apple에 닥친 위험들

지금 Apple사의 경영진들은 현재의 엄청난 성공을 즐길지도 모른다.  아니 현명하다면 지금이 가장 큰 위기인 줄 알겠지. 하지만 지금은 iPhone과 iPod Touch가 엄청난 성공을 거두고 있고, Mac OS X도 상황이 좋다. Mac을 사는 사람들도 많고, 무엇보다도 Mac을 긍정적으로 생각하는 사람들과 회사들이 많다.
나는 오래전부터 Apple의 컴퓨터들을 좋아했다. 그 이유는 그 API나 Framework을 너무 잘 디자인해서였다. Windows나 DOS에서의 [...]

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Threat to Apple’s Success with iPhone

Executives at Apple Inc. would enjoy current success with their iPhone and sound foundation of Mac platform nowadays. I like to see Apple’s outstanding performance in the market, because I have known Apple programmers’ and engineers’ considerate design on their frameworks and overall structure of their OS. MS and others were not so considerate about [...]

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How to target iPhone 2.x with Xcode 3.2

Many people seemed to be perplexed by finding out that there is no iPhone 2.x target mode with Xcode 3.2, which is from the Snow Leopard.
So, tried searching about it, and found some.
Build iPhone Apps for 2.2 and Earlier, Using Xcode 3.2 and Snow Leopard

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Strange iPhone video player behaviour

This is not really about development but rather a bug or something I don’t understand.
Whenever I tried to play video lecture from Stanford iTunesU on my iPod Touch, it couldn’t. However, iTunes can play them, VLC can play them, QuickTime player can play them. So, I tried to figure out what the differences are.
The original [...]

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Tree XML parser for iPhone

When parsing XML files, there are two ways. One is to use an event parser and the other one is to use a tree parser. Cocoa provides classes for the two different type of parsing. NSXMLDocument provides a tree parser functionality while NSXMLParser provides an event parser functionality.
However, for devices like iPhone where memory usage [...]

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How to set your iPhone / iPod touch as a target

When you follow instruction on “Welcome to the iPhone Developer Program Portal” to figure out how to put your program on an iPhone / iPod touch for testing, you would be a little embarrassed. First, explanation is very long and seems to be not focused well. So, you don’t know what you are doing.
So, I [...]

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