Comments on: How To Develop A Simple iPhone App & Submit It To iTunes

By: Thegoodboy66

Thegoodboy66 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:45:00 +0000

I Agree tooo

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Great and helpful article. You mentioned that the app must be approved by Apple. What types of apps do they reject? Is is hard to get approved?

By: Dagaza

Dagaza — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:24:00 +0000

Why do people have to pay apple to make apps for apple, to make a profit for apple?

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:42:40 +0000

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By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:42:00 +0000

If you want to save the article with screenshots and everything you may
either bookmark it or print it to PDF file and keep it on your computer.
One of the best ‘to PDF’ converter tools is doPDF.

See,
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-dopdf-to-convert-documents-to-pdf-for-free-windows-only/

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:23:52 +0000

VERY interesting article. Lots of info for a super newbi like me. Is there a way I can save your article as written (with screenshots and all??).
I would like to keep it for future reference. ALSO…. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the author (Beth) replied to many of the comments posted. Thank you sooo much for all this good stuff!!

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:23:00 +0000

By: abdullah baqasah

abdullah baqasah — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:14:10 +0000

Great article

It is a good practice to create your own iPhone app :)

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:57:10 +0000

This was a very good article. The steps you laid out are very easy to read and understand, and I think they will help a lot of people understand the process.

I just got my first app out and approved. There is no question it was well worth the $99, and It’s already doing a huge deal to support my business. I am pleased with the support we get from apple, and the system they put in place to help my company become successful. This is all stuff independent developers couldn’t even dream of 5 years ago.

In my opinion, the $99 is just a good way to keep tabs on everything and denture developers who aren’t completely serious. People usually forget that systems cost money… Hiring employees and allocating their time to reviewing 1000′s of apps costs money… apps that don’t sell also cost the host time and money…

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:18:51 +0000

Uhm, $99? Here’s some interesting comparisons…
Computers:Â
Apple:
To develop programs for the Mac (laptops & desktops)
FREE – Download the SDK (costs your email address and a password). Â Done

Microsoft:Â
To develop programs for Windows (XP, Vista, Win7):
Visual Studio Standard Edition: $260
Visual Studio Pro Edition: $650
For the documentation on their development software and special licensing for some of their software (called MSDN for “Microsoft Developer Network”) it’s between $1,000 – $10,000. Â You can get ‘bundles’ which have the development and subscriptions together and you can see sone if those options and pricing here Â http://www.nextag.com/msdn-subscription/stores-html

Phones / mobile devices:
Apple:
To develop & test (simulate) apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad (one IDE does them all):
FREE – Download the SDK (costs your email address and a password). Â Unfortunately you can’t even download the app to your own phone. Â I agree, that sucks a little.

To DISTRIBUTE your APP(s) (download to your – and up to 100 other – test iPhones and/or distribute your app via iTunes store costs $99. Â That gives you a ‘certificate’ so Apple can track your apps and pay you (if applicable).Â

Google/Android:Â
One-time fee of $25 to develop. Â One difference w/ Apple is there are 70 million devices that can run apple Apps. Â Not so many for Android Â

Windows Mobile 7 – don’t know – probably won’t be out ’till 2012 anyway.

Other platforms:
Nintendo Wii Development kit: $1,700. Â Don’t know if that includes anything else

Xbox 360: I couldn’t find numbers for the dev kit but one person said it’s cost-prohibitive for “small companies”. This is on top of the cost for ‘membership’ which is $99 per year

The $99 cost for iPhone development seems pretty fair to me.

By: Bet Ritter-Guth

Bet Ritter-Guth — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:59:10 +0000

You are right; it is 99 a year; it was, for a short time, just a once and done fee.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:47:33 +0000

Great article! I thought that the developer program fee was yearly and not one-time though…

By: carla brown

carla brown — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:57:56 +0000

indeed its better to create a design by yourself then ask others to do it for you..

By: Beth Ritter-Guth

Beth Ritter-Guth — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:39:57 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Harry. I didn’t intend to insinuate that the step was not a major part of the process; it is, indeed, the largest part, but it deserves its own post :-)

By: Harry Forsdick

Harry Forsdick — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:32:25 +0000

The article is good in that it outlines the steps — but it gives the impression that programming or learning Objective C is a small, annoying piece of the puzzle. To this programmer most of the steps before and after the programming steps are pretty trivial. The hard part is getting the programming right. Certainly the examples help a lot, but I think you underestimate the importance of the actual program which causes the app to actually do it’s thing. Can’t be as inconsequential as you suggest.