New program reduces App Store commission to 15 percent for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year
Apple News Room
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-store-small-business-program/
App Update Galore (macOS Big Sur & Apple Silicon)
With macOS Big Sur and Macs with Apple Silicon on the horizon, I wanted to give a quick update on my Mac apps.
All of them are now available in a new version, making them run nicely under macOS Big Sur, and have been recompiled to natively run on Apple Silicon.
Here’s a quick run-down of what else is new:
Yoink for Mac (website + free trial | Mac App Store | Setapp)
v3.5.11, received numerous quality-of-life improvements
ScreenFloat (website + free trial | Mac App Store)
v1.5.18, adds PDF as export option and fixes a few minor annoyances
Transloader (website | Mac App Store | iOS App Store)
v2.1.1, big upgrade in the works, this update makes sure it runs nicely on the new system and architecture
Glimpses (website + free trial | Mac App Store)
v2.2.3, improves video rendering speed by up to 6x and fixes a couple of minor issues
flickery (website + free trial | Mac App Store)
v1.9.48, minor compatibility update
SiriMote (website | direct download (Freeware))
v1.3.9, improves the connection to the Apple TV Siri Remote and fixes minor bugs
I hope you’ll like them 🤗
As always, if you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to write me!
Interview on Indie Dev Mondays
I’ve had the honor of being interviewed by Josh Holtz for Indie Dev Mondays about life as an indie developer, and my app Yoink.
Also interviewed in this issue: Antoine van der Lee, developer of the app RocketSim and lead of mobile development at WeTransfer.
Indie Dev Mondays – Issue 14
Yoink for iPad and iPhone’s 3 Year Anniversary
Today, Yoink for iPad and iPhone is 3 years old 🥳. Time surely flies when you have… bugs to fix.
It certainly doesn’t feel like three years. It feels like only yesterday, to be honest.
On the other hand, the release process, yes, that felt like it took three years, because I was eager to release alongside iOS 11 (which, due to its drag and drop capabilities, made Yoink for iOS possible in the first place), but there were some serious delays with App Review, who rejected the app multiple times because of its keyboard extension, and later, its File Provider (while other, similar keyboard/FP extensions were apparently perfectly fine and allowed on the App Store. This is my single biggest gripe with App Review – the inconsistencies in rejections. It’s obvious why these things happen, and it’s understandable, but it’s frustrating nonetheless).
But all that’s in the past. Yoink for iOS has been out there for three years now, and it has been doing great – thanks to all of you who use it, leave ratings, reviews or send feedback.
It’s been featured on the App Store on numerous occasions – here are a few examples:
So thank you all for three amazing years. Let’s hope for many, many more 🤗
P.S.: Keep an eye out on my social channels (twitter | facebook | linkedin), as I’ll be posting a few promo codes there!