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How to put an iOS app into App Store?
The truth is far from ‘ideal’ – developing an iOS application is somehow a frustrating process. You want to play Apple’s game? You have to follow Apple’s rules. Welcome to the jungle kid!
Idea
Let’s do some brainstorming and throw all our wonderful ideas on the table – audio, video, animation, geo, gesture, social media, what else? One fact that gets overlooked here is that app is supposed to be simple, to do one thing and do it brilliantly. We learned the lesson at a late stage.
Users don’t care about all the fabulous additional features. Sometimes they are just fripperies distracting users’ attention and make them confused. Read more
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