One Programmer’s Lament
Since Infinity Softworks had to get small in order to grow, I took on the task of programming again. Before 2007, I really hadn’t written any code since 2000. Since 2007 I have been involved in...
View ArticleTo Flash or Not To Flash? That’s The Question
I’ve been following the news out of the Mobile World Congress (MWC). There are probably two items that struck my fancy: the first is the debate raging in the mobile world regarding Adobe Flash on...
View ArticleDoes Anti-Trust Pressure Force Apple, Palm To Play Nice?
It’s going to be a very busy couple of weeks in mobile land. This week, Palm finally ships the Pre. We’ll finally see if it lives up to the hype. And then next week, Apple will have their World Wide...
View ArticleFastFigures v2: From Good to Great
Version 1.0 is always so hard. When we wrote version 1.0 of FastFigures Finance Calculator and released it in February, we really didn’t know what we were doing. We were trying to figure out everything...
View ArticlePsychology of iPhone Pricing
When I started in this business 12 years ago, there was tried-and-true consumer price points: $9.99, $19.99, $29.99, $49.99, $99.99. Only a few apps — Microsoft Office, Adobe Photo suites come to mind...
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