How To Become An iPhone Developer!

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How To Build your first iPhone App,
Smashing Magazine has a very nice article for people who still have no clue or have a clue but do not know how to go about building an iPhone App and make it a very successful one.
The article takes you through from getting started tips like;

• join the Apple iPhone Developer Program ($99)
  
• get iPhone or iPod Touch
  
• get an Intel-based Mac computer with Mac OS X 10.5.5,
• prepare a Non-Disclosure Agreement
• download and install the latest version of the iPhone SDK if you don’t already have it.
• a spiral bound notebook

to the details. The post goes on to tell you about getting your project off the ground. It also tells you the values of Skills assessment, Market research, Apple iPhone GUI, design, programming to finally submitting your app to to App Store.
Great read even if you are not a iPhone developer because you might become one or pick up some ideas. I picked up a great idea, the sketching up of the app.
"Create at least one thumbnail page of your application per screen. Experiment with various navigational schemes, the text you put on buttons, and how screens connect and transfer your sketches into digital format"
Great. Now I can leave the office telling I am off to the park to sketch my next design!
Smashing.

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Apple Makes Google Voice App Saga, Even Dirtier, Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay For The Refunds.

Rotten Apple In A Banana Republic
"Apple made it impossible for our customers to receive the fixes, updates, and support by pulling the app. We were fulfilling our end of the bargain. Why should those refunds come out of our pocket?" says Duerr. "The refund issue and lack of respect for our mutual customers has further soured us on the belief that Apple cares at all about their developers … other than the dollars they bring in."
That is a part of what Kevin Duerr, developer of VoiceCentral Google Voice app for iPhone said in an interview with Maclife.
Well I really wonder what Apple is up to, they could have done this much better.
Maclife via Gizmodo

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iPhone Developer, Another Way To Go Bankrupt?

Developers to pay Apple For refunded iPhone Apps
iPhone App refunds might make iPhone App developper go bankrupt according to an article on TechCrunch.
Ususally you can get a refund for your app from apple within 90 days if you do not want the application for valid reasons. Apple refunds the 100% of the application price to the user. But the kicker seems to be, Apple wants to keep it's commission, the 30% Apple charges developers to use it's iTunes App Store to distribute warez. So the developer has to pay out of his pocket, the 30% to the user! HA!! More fodder for EFF and rougue App stores. I hone Cydia will not follow Apple's path in this drive to bankrupt developers.

"a Licensed Application fails to conform to Your specifications or Your product warranty or the requirements of any applicable law, Apple may refund to the end-user the full amount of the price paid by the end-user for that Licensed Application. In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an end-user, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. Apple will have the right to retain its commission on the sale of that Licensed Application, notwithstanding the refund of the price to the end."
TC has more information and a copy of the contract on line. Read and laugh or weep, depending who you are.
iPhone App Refund Policies, TechCrunch

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iPhone Developer Jobs

iPhone Developers
If you ever looked for an iPhone developer and wanted to help US economy by hiring a US based iPhone Programmer, you are in luck.
iPhone developer quotes (iPhonedeveloperquotes,com) is providing anyone with the means to get that killer iPhone App developed.
They are also inviting iPhone developers to join the group.
UberGizmo told us about the developer quotes

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