And they called me personally to tell me they were doing so, the decision having been made by "high level Apple executives." The line repeated to me ad nauseum was that "the concept of the app might offend a large group of people.” The concept of the app is to amplify liberal perspectives on social… Continue reading AskNot rejected by Apple because it’s liberal
Month: November 2018
Why I hate “JSON API 1.0” – a Mobile Dev’s perspective
As a mobile app developer, I work with APIs a lot. The vast majority of them use JSON. Due to a refactor of the MBTA's API for the Boston T (and on past projects) I had the extreme misfortune to work under the JSON API format. The reason it's so awful for mobile devs is… Continue reading Why I hate “JSON API 1.0” – a Mobile Dev’s perspective
iOS Security 101
I used to work at Mobiquity, Inc. as their head of mobile security, and a lot of what I did was make sure their iOS apps were as secure as possible. The thing is, a determined attacker will always succeed – our job as a developers is to make their life hard, so that less-than-determined attackers… Continue reading iOS Security 101