396: ‘The Essence of Stealing’, With David Barnard
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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.