Special guest David Barnard joins the show. Topics include the App Store — past, present, and post-DMA future — and the excellent new update to his app Weather Up.

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Links:

• Weather Up.
  
  • On the App Store.
  
  
  • Screenshot of two Weather Up widgets showing somewhat different forecasts via two different weather sources.


• RevenueCat.


• Sub Club Podcast.


• “How to Game the App Store” — an unfortunately still-relevant piece David wrote back in 2018.


• Trip Cubby — first link on Daring Fireball to one of David’s apps, in September 2008 (just two months after the App Store opened).


• March 2008 Apple event announcing the iPhone SDK and App Store.
  
  • Apple Newsroom post.


• WWDC 2010 keynote: iPhone 4 and iAds announced.
  
  • Apple Newsroom post.


• Aaron Hillegass’s acclaimed books on Objective-C and Cocoa programming.


• Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies.


• Fakespot — Mozilla’s tool for identifying scams and fake reviews.


• City on Fire — Ringo Lam’s 1987 Hong Kong action movie, starring the great Chow Yun-fat, that inspired Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.


• Apple’s nearly ruinous “Look and feel” lawsuit against Microsoft in 1994.


• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”


• David, in a blog post from 2011: "Great Developers Steal Ideas, Not Products".


• David, on Twitter/X, with a more accurate ballpark estimate of Meta's average revenue per user (ARPU) in the EU: roughly $4 per user per app per quarter. They could pay Apple's €0.50 per app installation per year Core Technology Fee without breaking a sweat.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.