David Barnard
@drbarnard
“Foremost expert on App Store minutia”―@BenThompson. Growth Advocate @RevenueCat. Host @SubClubHQ. Founder @Contrast. Featured in @nytimes @WSJ @TechCrunch etc
works flawlessly for me
Apple Screen Time functionality is so inconsistent and buggy it feels like the team is run by people who don’t even have kids
I’ve written about this multiple times. Apple keeps patching the bugs. Problem is, the whole product is the bug.
Apple Screen Time functionality is so inconsistent and buggy it feels like the team is run by people who don’t even have kids
FYI - This features is available for free to every Appfigures subscriber (but some data will be locked depending on your plan)
Fantastic new feature just dropped in the @appfigures app: quickly get revenue and download estimates for any app on the App Store!
Fantastic new feature just dropped in the @appfigures app: quickly get revenue and download estimates for any app on the App Store!
This was such a fun conversation with @gruber, hope folks find it useful. My goal was to help App Store developers, especially those that don’t follow Apple closely, better understand their most important business “partner”.
40 years of Apple developer relations, all leading to one big question: what comes next? 🧵 In the latest podcast, @gruber joins @drbarnard to trace how Apple built a dev empire… and why it might need a reset. A few of our favorite takeaways 👇
lorde knows
Lorde speaks up about Figma Liquid Glass: "It's not the same effect as Apple if it doesn't slowly distort the further it gets from the center, rather than suddenly distorting around the corners." The pop star also shared her distain for Figma's cap on corner smoothing.
🚨 Heads-up, iOS devs: Apple just introduced the Retention Messaging API. It lets developers decide what shows up on the native “Confirm Cancellation” sheet. You can add custom copy, and more! Let's explore 👇
why is every single AI agent demo focused on travel booking? the avg american doesn’t travel that often & booking flights/hotels is not that hard of a task would love to see demos focused on more common + impactful tasks. ex: impactful: book teeth cleaning appointments for my…
ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer. Introducing ChatGPT agent—a unified agentic system combining Operator’s action-taking remote browser, deep research’s web synthesis, and ChatGPT’s conversational strengths.
I absolutely love my @meta glasses for phone calls, podcasts on walks, and taking photos. But hardly ever use the AI for this reason (and also how handicapped the iOS integration is due to Apple’s limitations)
I still wear my @Meta glasses every day—they're my prescription lenses—but their AI has gotten Siri-level bad compared to modern-day agents. It's like GPT-3.5 trapped with 2023 knowledge and no tools (no web search!!). This isn't a HW problem—just upgrade the @#$ server already!
So basically you're free to say anything you're not forbidden to say. Right.
#DemocracyNotAlgocracy | 🇪🇺🇫🇷In Europe, one is free to speak, not to spread illegal content. #EuropeProtects #DSAProtects
As an outcome from the change: US tech companies are disincentivized to hire abroad (all R&E expenses - basically, anything software - mandated to be amortized over 15 years) Expect US companies to hire more in the US, and less outside. Good or bad, depends where you're based!
Instead of mass immigration we could have gamers doing productive labor all across the country without having to commute. I want to kick back & listen to music or a podcast while remotely operating a hay baler in Wyoming.
🇨🇳 Some construction jobs in China are now becoming 100% remote
Ooooh, this looks amazing… will report back in a few…
YouTube preview: youtu.be/dD-Ci_JvG-M After a week of handworks — we’ve wrapped the world’s first independent Immersive Film captured on the brand-new Blackmagic Design URSA Cine Immersive. The result is a 13-minute travel piece, mastered at 8K per eye, 90 fps HDR and packaged…
i'm hiring @stripe for a unique role unconventional candidates welcome! you'll: [x] manage stripe's social media handles [x] create novel ways to share product updates online [x] produce demos, visuals, and tweets [x] spend lots of time with startups and devs [x] shape how…
RevenueCat’s Series C: -Valuation: $500M -$ Raised: $30M primary, $20M secondary -ARR: ~$30M (75% YoY growth) -Cash Burn: $0 (slightly profitable) -ARR Multiple: ~16x And this is after just barely rejecting a $500M acquisition offer. Incredible. And just getting started