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TNW: Parting shot - what would you say to iOS developers that could be developing for OS X, but aren’t?īM: This has been a huge success for me, and the Mac App Store has been even better than I expected it to be. They did the same amount in terms of revenue.Īfter hearing all the stories, I’m pleasantly surprised at how the Mac App Store has treated me. prominently featured, and they got around the same amount of press form all the tech websites. The Mac version got Editor’s Choice, and was number one or two on the Mac App Store page. Carrot Weather for iOS was featured, and I think had an Editor’s Choice tag. It’s been really close to the launch of Carrot Weather for iOS. How has that been for you, selling exclusively via the App Sore and trying to make money?īM: It’s actually been way better than I expected with regard to revenue. Are you selling Carrot Weather through your own website in addition to the Mac App Store?īM: I sell exclusively through the Mac App Store. TNW: The App Store has a reputation for being a bit of a fools errand for success. So, I ported the main app, and did something completely different with the mini window. It can do just about everything the main app can do… and I really like how you can bring it up and it shows everything. TNW: In “porting” your iOS app to the desktop, did you consider doing something totally different, or were you trying to bring a similar experience to OS X?īM: I wanted to bring the same experience, but I did something pretty different with the ‘mini window’, which is almost a completely separate app on its own. I think Apple is doing well by the Mac community. They’re still spending tons and tons of resources and money and development time building these updates year after year to OS X when iOS is what’s making them so much money. It’s a mature development platform, and I don’t think Apple has abandoned it at all. Did you run into any roadblocks, or was it really just different?īM: I didn’t run into anything I couldn’t do, I just had to find new strategies for doing on OS X that either don’t exist or are different on iOS. TNW: A lot of people feel Apple has left OS X behind with regard to frameworks and such. I didn’t really have any trouble developing for it that I wouldn’t have it I were developing for iOS the first time. It was a learning experience more than anything else. So, it’s just a lot of minor or big API differences that I had to wrap my head around. Just all the APIs for building tables are different because of that. On iOS, you only have room for one column, and on Mac you can have multiple columns. The Mac has been around for many years before iOS, and there are certain ways of doing things, like building tables.
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What issues did you have in bringing your iOS app to OS X?īM: There weren’t any big “issues” I ran into, it’s just that the platforms are different. Weather just seemed like a relatively easy project to dip my toes into Mac app development, and it ended up being a bit harder than I thought it was going to be.
CARROT WEATHER APPLE WATCH UPDATE
The To-Do app does make sense to bring to the Mac App Store, but it needed a big overhaul, and I have been working on a big update to that, but it just wasn’t ready. I didn’t want to start on a whole new Carrot project because I figured that once WWDC rolled around I’d have to immediately switch my attention to iOS 9 and watchOS 2. The entire time, you’ve concentrated on iOS, so why come to the desktop now - and why not Carrot To-Do?īM: It was just that I was done with Carrot Weather for iOS and the Apple Watch, and it was about a month before WWDC when Apple releases all the new SDKs. TNW: Two years ago you started with Carrot To-Do on iOS. I think it’s just having that brand that people are already familiar with and really enjoy is a big part of it. There are some other more “pro” weather apps that charge $30 or so, but I was a bit surprised considering Carrot is a lot more expensive than some of the other weather apps. What do you attribute that to? You’re charging a bit more than other weather apps, so it seems the cards should be stacked against you.īM: That’s another surprising thing. I only learned that no weather app has made it into the top five on the Mac App Store, in terms of top paid apps and top grossing apps. TNW: Has the App Store been treating you well?īM: (laughs) I probably should have done some market research before I got too far into development. I wanted to hit a few keys and bring up the weather rather than go to a browser window. I wanted a really good weather app for my Mac because I’m there all day. Brian Mueller: I didn’t have a grand plan, really.