Thursday, August 28, 2008

No looking back...

Well, I've done it. I've submitted my first iPhone application to Apple. At first I didn't realize I'd need to come up with a company name and create a website for said company. Now, witness the birth of SpaghettiForge! The name is a little self-deprecating humour about every coder's ability to sometimes turn perfectly good ideas into a tangled plate of bad compartmentalization.



The app I've submitted is called TouchMines. It's a minesweeper clone that's completely free, while the other 3 available minesweeper apps cost $0.99. The other developers shouldn't be too worried about my undercutting their prices, because my 1.0 release is very feature-bare and really can only compete for free. When I release future updates, there may have to be come friendly competition and innovation going on (let's hope!).



I also hope this is the just the first of many free, relatively useful apps that I'll release over the coming year.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Vintage Commercial



Sometimes Apple commercials just blow me away in their bluntness. Of course there are many things you can only do with deep and powerful configuration of your system, the reason i have windows and linux up and running on my laptop. What got me is the idea that there will ALWAYS be a market for the simple devices. Some people will always pay a premium for something whose simplicity blows away any lack of functionality. The day every consumer becomes a coder I'll eat my words with a fair helping of glee.