I have been developing a new version of my iPhone application, Subnet Calc for a few weeks now. I decided to call the new version Subnet Calc Pro as it’s essentially an advanced version of the free one.
In order to sell applications on the App Store for money you have to complete the banking and tax information. The banking information is straight forward but the tax information is a little bit more tricky due to the strange nature of having to fill in lots of bits relating to US tax identifiers (ITIN and EIN) and so I had no idea what to do, so I emailed Apple and got an extremely useful reply which basically stated:
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I’ve had a really good time since I started developing iPhone applications and my first app is now up to version 1.2 which has seen a major change and a couple of minor tweaks and bug fixes compared to version 1.0. When I released it I had no idea about the size of the market for a relatively niche application, but my downloads soared in the first month and are tailing off slightly now but I am well over 5000 downloads now. This of course if only a minor dent in the actual amount of iPhones out there, so maybe it’s no wonder.
I am starting work on a new app now which is based upon my first app and I hope that publicity such as that which I received from Softpedia should help with download numbers. I am probably going to charge for this next app and so I guess I need all the help I can in order to make it a viable situation for me. Anyway, I havn’t decided much yet as it’s still early stages.
I went out for a the day on Saturday and when I came back I went up to my room to check on how my Macbook was doing with copying some files into iTunes when I noticed that the charger indicator on my Magsafe was orange, meaning charging. It had been plugged in overnight and was green, meaning finished charging, since I left. So it was strange that the laptop was charging rather than just running off the mains power. I then went to move my Macbook when I noticed a few sparks and some smoke and to my horror I looked down and noticed that where the thin cord comes out of the power brick, the wire was burnt and was smouldering! Obviously I very quickly unplugged it and held it well away from anything flammable as clearly the thing was still extremely hot. Needless to say I took it into the Apple store today and got a replacement instantly (brilliant service as ever Apple!), but not before snapping a few photos to show everyone:
