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No worries, if I was a bad actor you'd be doing the right thing, and as many have already pointed out more often than not it is a bad actor. It's tough (trying to be) of the good guys not abusing the system chasing revenue at all costs, no worries.

I don't use local push notifications for advertising, either. I use them for A) location-based recording reminders created by users and B) notifications when a recording from the Watch is synced to your phone and ready to view, since that can take a minute or so if you're off wifi.

I remember one person reaching out shortly after the iOS 13 launch that I trigged the "Slopes has been using your location in the background" notification when I wasn't recording, which was an error on my side and I fixed that right away.

I did have an email or two go out around Christmas for a giveaway, so I certainly had some email marketing in play then. Maybe Slopes appeared in a notification from your mail client? But Slopes itself did not trigger any notification, push or local, for that campaign.

I'm really hoping Apple keeps a log of pushes, because they'll happily be able to tell you that the only pushes I send with Slopes are silent content-available notification for sync engine stuff. I have never sent any user-visible notification, and you're likely mistaking an in-app call-to-action as a push notification.

Apps that use push for marketing deserve hellfire, even if they are little indie shops. Being indie is no excuse for abusing things like push. We have to be scrappy, but we can do so without being spammy.

Hi, developer of Slopes here. Wait, what!? I do not use push for marketing (I hardly have a working push server). I haven't ever sent out any push notification for any reason (the recording reminders are local notifications, not server-side ones).

I do have a little in-app banner at the top of the logbook screen for messaging like prompting to create an account, or upselling premium, or other things. It has grey background, but its buttons are blue and it has a red dot on it so it doesn't look to clone the appearance of a system notification perfectly or anything (it isn't even pinned to the top of the screen or anything, where notifications come from). Maybe you thought it was a notification? But it can only occur in-app, on one screen, and is in no way a violation of Apple's ToS.

Edit: Screenshot of the in-app banner to aid discussion: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3ib5pbfg5eid51/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Edit 2: The banner used to be all blue, which looked even less like a system notification, but I was worried it was too distracting from users' content so this season I opted for a grey background to help it blend in more.

People are still complaining about section 8 - the remote kill switch? I remember only one instance of an app remotely killed, and that was malware.

Even apps that enabled tethering, emulating, or are otherwise against the rules but make it through review have been simply pulled for sale, never terminated using this capability. I think Apple has proved they're using this responsibly after 6 years.

Check out CocoaConf (http://cocoaconf.com). They travel around the country and provide many technical talks. I was at their DC one in March and found it very educational.

"Not tech" as in no sessions focusing on how to maximize your CoreData performance, or how to use Metal in your new iOS8 game. No talks that are technical in nature.

Congrats! Quick nitpick - fix your icon in the app store itself. Looks like you have the corner radius from iOS6 on your icon so you get some black edging in the corner. I usually just export a square version for the iTunes image, they'll add corners as needed.

(great template: http://appicontemplate.com)

I make a distinction between trust and reliability. I can trust a company, even though they might not make the most reliable products.

Bugs/etc are a great way to lose my business, but not a way to lose my trust.

(what you're saying isn't lost on me, I just reserve "trust" for the situation I alluded to -- an important distinction given online privacy concerns/etc)

To counter this - installed 2.0, dropbox setup was just a matter of copying/pasting my password from 1Password (took ~10 seconds), and all my accounts/settings were there just fine.

Bugs are frustrating, but please realize that sometimes they happen despite best efforts. Lets keep small annoyances like this perspective and not say they're "ruining customer trust." Save that claim for situations like selling your data or generally being evil and untrustworthy.

I hope you reached out to the development team with a constructive bug report to help them track down your issue.

Come now, for years devs have criticized Apple for not having a proper first-party beta-testing solution. Now what might be their step into addressing that developer cry is being used against them in the typical Apple-controls-everything-FUD?

(I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, sadly...) (And, lets alt-history a bit here: had they rolled their own solution they would have been criticized for "sherlocking yet another indy product")

It actually is - each plane as an ideal glide speed that you pitch the plane to match during an engine-out. 1 mile per 1k feed above ground level is a good rule of thumb for glide distance at this speed.

SEEKING WORK - Based outside of Philadelphia, PA. Remote work ok.

I specialize in crafting both web-based and native iOS applications and I run Consumed by Code. Over the years I've lead dozens of individuals, startups, and small businesses through the process of planing, building, and successfully launching their product ideas. I work directly with my clients as a partner; looking to understand their business and customers, seeing where technology can add value. This approach ensures the product is successful; be it a consumer-facing app that delights or a web-based system that optimizes their business.

Tools of the trade: Objective-C, PHP with CodeIgniter, ASP.NET MVC in C#, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL), HTML5, CSS3, Javascript with jQuery, and of course lots of Photoshop

Most recently I've launched my company's first product: Slopes - an iOS app for skiers and snowboarders. http://getslopes.com

I’d encourage you to visit my website, http://consumedbycode.com, to read client stories from past projects and learn more about how I can help you.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based outside of Philadelphia, PA)

I'm a developer with design chops focusing on creating web and iOS applications. I love collaborating with startups and businesses to turn their idea into a product.

Technically speaking I'm strong in front-end (HTML5/CSS/jQuery), back-end (PHP/MVC.NET), and (native) iOS development. My full-stack knowledge has proven an extremely valuable asset to the teams I've worked with. The majority of startups I've worked with have repeatedly asked me to move and come work for them.

You can take a look at my portfolio for sample work (http://consumedbycode.com). My contact information is also there.

I'd love to hear from you if you have an interesting project to work on.

I've been debating using something like Parse or Azure as a backend, and this looks like a nice alternative as I'm usually a roll-your-own-solution kinda guy.

But I worry about how it would hold up in terms of performance, given this recent benchmarking fest featured on HN. http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/framework-benchma...

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based outside of Philadelphia, PA)

I'm a developer with design chops focusing on creating web and iOS applications. I love consulting with talented people to help realize great ideas and solve interesting problems. I’m passionate about taking an active role in my clients’ projects and hate just sitting back and being a dumb code-monkey or pixel-pusher. I enjoy really digging into my clients' challenges and working with them to come up with compelling solutions.

Technically speaking I'm strong in front-end (HTML5/CSS/jQuery), back-end (PHP/MVC.NET), and (native) iOS development. I've been told my full-stack knowledge paired with my ability to concentrate on the little details while not loosing sight of the big picture is a unique and extremely valuable asset to the teams I've worked with. The majority of startups I've worked with have asked me to move and come work for them. So that's a good sign, right?

I just wrapped up a long-term contract with a startup on an iOS project (as lead dev and a UX guy) and I'm ideally looking to take on another iOS project.

You can take a look at my portfolio for sample work (http://www.consumedbycode.com/) and GitHub for sample public code (https://github.com/parrots).

My contact information is on my website. I'd love to hear from you if you have an interesting project to work on.

I noticed the same. I think that's replace with the "Up Next" feature - basically letting you queue songs to an ad-hoc playlist as you go.

Sure, it's slowed down - everyone has gotten the pop-up by now telling them to OTA update so those that are left didn't want to right away. But that just puts us in the same boat we used to be; a slower adoption rate as we wait for them to manually do it.

If they don't care, that's fine. They'll start to care as more things go iOS6 only. Just like people stay on XP forever until there's a reason to upgrade.

But 60% of the user base (including those who can't update like iPad 1, not just 60% of eligible) in less than a month? As a dev that make me really really happy and not scoff at considering going iOS6 only.

The adoption rate for iOS6 has been amazing compared to previous versions that weren't OTA. Over 60% in less than a month (according to a statistically significant and diverse user base source: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/). I recall seeing some iOS5-only apps when it was adopted this widely after a few months.

Thought: in-app "pro" version to take advantage of the fact that people pay $$$ for wedding stuff? Keeps you in the top music list because you're cheap, but some of the more advanced features might be worth a premium.

(Note: I had "pro" as much as the next version, but seems better than a multi-hundred dollar DJ)

True, true. My thoughts were along the line of the Classic - from year to year they didn't innovate much along that one line, but you're 100% correct they innovated to fill more niches with new lines.

Yes, because every iPod they released was a revolution with tons of innovations compared to the previous year's, right?. Just like every Mac?

Iteration is how Apple plays it, and they play it well.

I think the nail in net neutrality's coffin will be when they start charging (or discounting) other parties' services. That isn't the case here.

The way I see it you get all their content through a cable box today without paying data usage fees for the bandwidth TV uses on their network (that's the point of the TV subscription fee). Now they're allowing that content on another "set-top box", in this case the XBox. The implementation details (the fact it uses internet streaming vs cable tuner card) shouldn't matter to the end-user. You pay the TV subscription fee, you get it without additional fees.

If the situation were reversed and they were charging data fees for accessing content you already pay for, we'd be up in arms about that, too...

People are afraid of technology because of the crap tech from the past 20 years. What do you think happens when those people stop being afraid? Suddenly software development feels accessible to a bunch more people.

I'd argue that people won't stop wanting to tinker, that in fact more people will start to because they no longer think it's impossible.

"Putting rules on things" is the path to the dark side - aka corporate proxies.