To authorize an Apple device to beta test an iPhone app you must copy its UDID into a provisioning portal – which only allows for 100 of these IDs. The reason for this, obviously, is so that developers can’t bypass the App Store and distribute their apps as ‘ad hoc’ versions. Craig Hockenberry says UDIDs aren’t the right way to throttle distribution. He’s suggesting Apple IDs would work better, since they are assigned for individuals rather than devices.
I’m not so sure. The problem isn’t UDIDs as much as the fact that UDIDs can’t be deleted from the provisioning portal. Currently, when people upgrade or change devices, that device UDID is left active in the portal. It’s a wasteful system, not necessarily broken one.
Apple has approved nearly 250 app every day since the iPhone App Store launched. Today, ours was one of them.
On Daring Fireball, John Gruber is linking to this report from Flurry reporting estimated sales figures from the first 74 days on the market for the original iPhone, the Motorola Droid, and the Google Nexus One.
The graph shows the Droid outselling the iPhone (by a slim margin), but Gruber is quick to point out that for the first 21 days the iPhone was very hard to purchase. But, how come no one is pointing out that the original iPhone wasn’t subsidized? Of course the Droid sold better – it was cheaper!
An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox:
Every hard drive in the world will eventually fail. Assume that yours are all on the cusp of failure at all times.
Heed this advice, people.
It’s ordered – actually, two of them are – and now I’m going back to bed.
Cameron Moll has finished, and is now shipping, his incredible Colosseo letterpress poster.
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