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28 November 2009
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eLounge
When I was 12 years old my mother bought me an Apple //c for my birthday and I immediately became the laughing stock of the classroom. Everyone else had a Commodore 64 and all these cool games and here was I, stuck with a machine that came with Apple Logo and Basic. The neat thing is that I still have that Apple //c, it runs perfectly and still has some of the those first simple programs I was writing while everyone else was bowling aliens or jumping over slow moving lasers.
I rejoined the Apple fold a few years ago with the purchase of a Mac and have started developing applications for this platform when not earning my bread as a consultant in the Wellington corporate scene. So far I've managed to put out two free independent iPhone applications and am slowly working on a rather large Mac applications, details of which can be found at www.elounge.net.nz. I'm also working for iPhone development company and helping them develop some commercial iPhone applications.
The hardest thing these days about iPhone development is building something original enough to stand out from the crowd. When developing Number Invaders I did a check on the App Store before beginning development to see whether anyone else had done something like it. No one had, so I started coding. One month later, by the time it was built and approved two other similar applications (which weren't as cool looking) had already been released. My hopes for releasing it as a paid App were dashed.
I tried making my next application (Timetable NZ) a little more specific - a public transport timetable finder for Wellington. This way the App has a specific purpose to a specific type of user and you aren't competing against a global developer pool. Hopefully some people out there will find this App useful - as a regular train and bus commuter I certainly do.
There's a few more App's in the pipeline, and I'll try and get them posted on NZiPhone.com once released.
Adrian Falvey, Nov 2009
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