Paid Upgrades on iOS – The Greedy Developer Guide
So you’re a full-time independent developer, and you’ve had an app in the store for four years, for which you’ve released regular free updates. Revenue for the app has dried up, because everyone who...
View ArticlePocket Weather Australia v3.1 – We’re Just Getting Started
We’re proud to announce the release of Pocket Weather Australia v3.1 for iPad and iPhone today. Here’s just a taste of what’s in the new version: Night time icons! We swear some of you are vampires,...
View ArticleCarrier logo: Shifty edition
In the top-left corner of every iOS device there is a space for service providers to proudly showcase their branding. Pop a sim into your iDevice and once connected, you’ll notice the name of your...
View ArticleiOS vs Android, Great Balls of Fire
Smart people like John Gruber of Daring Fireball seem to believe that Android development takes 3x as many developers as iOS. He believes it so strongly he mentions it again in another post about...
View ArticlePocket Casts 4 Sneak Peek
Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard on the biggest update to Pocket Casts for iOS that we’ve ever done. We’re excited to finally be able to announce that Pocket Casts version 4 is almost...
View ArticlePocket Casts Launches Into The Exosphere
I’m not sure if you noticed, but last week Apple launched iOS 7. It was a big deal. We launched Pocket Casts 4 at the same time, it was also a big deal. Today we launched version 4.1 which includes all...
View ArticlePocket Weather & iOS 7
Pocket Weather is a bit of an institution in Australian weather apps. It was one of the first apps on the scene when the App Store first launched, since then we’ve grown it to what we think is the one...
View ArticlePocket Weather 4 is here!
Pocket Weather 4 for iPhone and iPad is here, and it’s a free update, so before reading any further: go grab it! What’s new? iPhone performance! Locations are back to opening lightning fast on even...
View ArticleShifty Jelly Apple Update
Today, Apple released iOS 9 and will shortly release Watch OS 2 to the world. We know that our iOS customers are really excited about all the possibilities these two new releases bring. We also know...
View ArticleNice Weather We’ve Been Having
It doesn’t seem that long ago, but back in 2008 we shipped version 1.0 of Pocket Weather. It was a different time for Shifty Jelly, just two guys working from their respective couches at night on a fun...
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