September 2009
4 posts
Unfit for purpose—followup
Just a few notes to follow up to my previous post about Apress PDF troubles:
After my first tweet about the problem, Apress got back to me very quickly suggesting the Aji Reader app that can process password-protected PDFs. And even followed up later, letting me know that Aji Reader prompting me for the password multiple times was a known bug. Unfortunately, thanks to the lack of Wifi on the...
Unfit for purpose
I had another run-in with the paranoid attitude of publishers today. I decided to buy the PDF version of Apress’s “iPhone Games Projects”, which—despite the clumsy title—looked like it might be handy. I’d flipped through a friend’s hardcopy edition a bit before: each chapter is by a different author, and on a different topic: networking, OpenGL, cross-platform game coding, and more.
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How to sell to a pirate
Paul Battley, to the media industries:
There is no point in putting restrictions on the sale of the legal copy, because your free competitor has the same product.
When you region-code the product, you prevent me from buying it.
When you don’t sell the product in my territory, you prevent me from buying it.
When you put DRM on the product, you prevent me from using it on the device of my...
Ramp Champ Revamp?
After noticing quite a few people on Twitter talking about Ramp Champ, I decided to give it a go. The artists from The Iconfactory have done an amazing job on the graphics for this little game.
The first time you start the game, and tap on a ramp to begin playing, it opens with a brief tutorial made of of five short messages:
This final message thoroughly confused me: the game was...