Manton and Daniel talk about the debut of the Mac App Store, tips for learning Mac development, and customer support.
Download (MP3, 33 minutes, 15 MB)
Links for the show:
- Clipstart, MarsEdit, Black Ink – Our apps on the Mac App Store
- Acorn – App Store page for Gus Mueller’s image editing app
- Big Nerd Ranch – The highly respected Cocoa boot-camp training company
- NSConference – The UK developer conference from Scotty of iDeveloper TV
- Realmac Software – Mac developers who made bold pricing changes for the App Store

Daniel Jalkut is the founder of Red Sweater Software. His most popular products are MarsEdit, Black Ink, FastScripts, and FlexTime.
Manton Reece is the founder of Riverfold Software. He builds e-book software for Ingram Digital and has 2 independent products: Clipstart and Wii Transfer.
Very good one, thanks! What are your thoughts on the final release of Xcode 4? I have gotten into Mac development only very recently, so the Xcode 4 previews were all I got to use – curious how you feel about it with years of experience with Xcode 3…
Thanks Tom! I’ve been mostly ignoring Xcode 4 (partly because I was skeptical of the new UI, and partly because it’s another distraction), but I guess I can’t do that anymore. I’ll try out the GM so we can talk about it on the next show.
Great show guys.
Following on the Xcode 4 theme. I’d love to hear your reactions to the news that XCode 4 is in the App Store and is $4.99 ($5.99 for us Aussies).
Personally I’m a little annoyed that I have to pay for it after it’s been free for so long.