Mobile Orchard Podcast

Brent Simmons is the creator of NetNewsWire for the iPhone and Mac.  Time Magazine named NetNewsWire one of the top-10 iPhone apps.

In this interview, Brent talks about adapting a desktop app’s UI for iPhone, has advice for indies making a living selling iPhone apps, describes how he successfully split MarsEdit from NetNewsWire, gives some examples of cool iPhone apps, talks about his “anti-packrat” compulsion, and chats about the complexity of syncing iPhone and desktop apps.

This episode features two interviews:

The first interview is with Padraig Kennedy, author of a very useful iPhone/iPod Touch backup decoder. Have your customers run it to get you their app-state to help track down bugs, or use it to just mess around and see what kind of info and data the apps and Apple have got stashed on your phone.

The second interview is with Pete Schwamb, creator of an app that can tell you the temperature by analyzing the sounds of crickets chirping by using a Fast Fourier Transformation on audio captured by the microphone.