Are You Ready to Master iPhone App Development?

by mattjdrake on December 23, 2009

Are You Ready to Master App Development?

Learn to become an iPhone OS ninja

Complete beginners

Programming 101 with C
Objective-C Programming

More advanced software developers

NO-BS approach to mastering Cocoa-Touch
Multi-Page Apps (UINavigationController/UITableView)
Advanced UITableView
Advanced UIKit
Core Data
Web Services
[More to be announced]

Why iPhone App Development?

Consulting

iPhone app developers are in high demand as more and more companies want to see their brand on this compelling platform (I turn consulting jobs down every week!). In today’s economy people are scared to death of losing their day job… Believe me, if you learn iPhone app development you will not have that problem.

Your Business

Have a fantastic idea for an app that you think will make real bank? Why not give it a try and put your app on the Apple App Store and start selling it to customers as soon as possible? Many people (including myself) support themselves full-time on iPhone software that we are selling in the store right now. You can add residual income, supplement your consulting practice or go into business full-time as a software publisher.

Bragging Rights

Sure, people with iPhones brag about their cool new gadget and maybe even a niffy app that they downloaded the night before. How cool will it be to show off your app that you created yourself on your phone and in the Apple App Store itself? I can tell you right now that it is a pretty cool feeling.

iPhone App Development
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A New Mobile App Development Podcast For You

by mattjdrake on November 19, 2009

Many of you may have seen that I have been using the “Mobile App Mastery” name often these names although I have not really talked about what Mobile App Mastery was going to be….

Well, today I fleshed out this new brand a bit more by launching a new podcast as part of the Mobile App Mastery brand. Keep your eyes on this website or on http://mobileappmastery.com over the next few weeks: I have many new surprises in store!

The first episode of the new podcast is about the Entrepreneurial Seizure – that moment where you realize that you can leave your 9-5 job and become your own boss.

Now you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes! Click here to subscribe to Mobile App Mastery.

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Breaking News: iPhone App Designer *Porn* Leak

November 6, 2009

This is something that iPhone App designers will appreciate…
As I was recording a [REDACTED] about an hour ago UPS dropped off a package that I wasn’t excepting until next week. This product is something that I believe that is being released on Monday and I think that app designers will love this one.
So this [...]

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Building with Beer: My App Beer Pad’s Revenue…

October 27, 2009
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Everyone loves to see how much money iPhone apps earn so I thought I would share how much money I made with Beer Pad.
A Typical App
I like using Beer Pad as yardstick to try to project how much an average iPhone app can expect to earn. Beer Pad is a simple app that appeals [...]

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Here Is The Problem With The App Store

October 13, 2009
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Apple App Store Stats

85,000 apps
125,000 app developers registered
4,500,000 apps downloaded each day
2,000,000,000 apps downloaded
$2.85 average app price
$.99 most common app price

Source: Apple Insider, Apple announces App Store downloads top 2 billion
Source: 148Apps.biz, App Marketing 101: Pricing your iPhone App – Art and Science
Numbers like two billion downloads, four and half million app downloads each day [...]

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Hear an Expert Marketer’s Thoughts On How the App Store Is Changing

October 5, 2009
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Rana Sobhany’s Keynote from 360iDev
I thought that this keynote from last week’s 360iDev was great. Rana works for a company called Medialets which helps developers do analytics for their apps (like web guys get with Google Analytics). She is talking about moving away from gaming the Apple App Store and moving toward quality [...]

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The View Is Good From the Edge of the World…

September 30, 2009

Yesterday I snuck out of my conference to see the rocky mountains close up – the views were spectacular and I wanted to share a little bit of them with you today.
This video was taken with my flip cam and we were only halfway up the mountain:

Right after this I had the (terrible) idea to [...]

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Going to 360iDev and Want To Be Interviewed?

September 25, 2009
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I’m psyched to be going to Denver next week for the 360iDev conference.
I am toying with the idea of interviewing the developers I met there (anyone who will talk to me!). If you are a developer, marketer or innocent bystander and what to appear on this site in either audio or visual format let [...]

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Does Your Online Business Depend On A Deal With The Devil?

September 22, 2009
Deal-With-Devil

When you depend 100% on a closed system run by a company that has all the power in a business relationship then you are effectively making a deal with the devil. Here is what you need to know and do to protect yourself and your business from ruin.
BREAKING UPDATE: to get an idea of [...]

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7 Really Simple Online Business Models

Fortune Cookie Exciting Business Venture September 15, 2009

These 7 online business models are all used in various business that I have seen and even considered at one time or another. All of these have the potential to be operated exclusively over the Internet.
Publisher
[Advertising Based Blog]
This is something you are probably familiar with already. What you do is set up an [...]

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