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Tweetie“I can’t go into details because I think everything is under NDA for, like, the next 20 years,” says Loren Brichter, the founder and sole developer at Philadelphia-based Mac shop atebits, and developer of Tweetie (.). He’s talking about the top-secret program he worked on at Apple: the iPhone.

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FacebookThe largest social network on earth wields tremendous power on the iPhone: its technical and visual innovations are so widely used they can become an immediate part of the iPhone UI cannon. Its task is daunting: transport Facebook’s entire app platform on top of an OS that is years younger than Facebook itself (see .).

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Topple 2“On the iPhone, it’s really about being respectful of peoples’ time,” says Ngmoco Founder and Chief Creative Officer Bob Stevenson. An odd mantra for a company that makes video games, the ultimate diversion- and surprisingly sober for a bunch of guys who measure their analytics in “awesomes.” . shows the home screen of Ngmoco’s Topple 2.

极端的正确性

AccuTerra“We have roughly 170 products on the shelf today,” says Dave Witonsky, head of smartphone development for Intermap. He’s not talking about apps. He’s talking about in-app purchase items: hyperdetailed maps that users can buy and download as they travel. Welcome to the dizzying world of AccuTerra: the iPhone’s titanic terabyte app (see .).

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PostageThis is the story of a band of engineers from a serious public software firm and their attempt to go solo and make serious software. What they ended up with: construction paper scraps on the floor, an ADA award, and one of the iPhone’s most exquisite apps, Postage (shown in .).

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Q&A: Exit Strategy NYCt of sweat equity or real-world overhead—licensing others’ content, spending hours on graphic design—the story behind Exit Strategy NYC speaks to one crucial question: is building this app worth it? And if so, how do you scale it into a fullyfeatured piece of software?