My name is Rupen , We have done an app called speaking twitter and the app is more powerful then twitterfic , and the links was given by mistake to Nick which i think he has taken seriously

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speakingtwitter/id366646673?mt=8

Nick , the reason for not replying you is that i found you a time pass person who just enquire companies to know what they are doing and not interested in giving business , sorry fur misunderstanding

Guys why are you entertaining this type of things which are written against a company or an individual , however Nick i think has no better business other then that but what about other guys ?

I would like you to stop commenting on blog here and even warn Nick not to do this any further

Thanks and Regards
Rupen – Aston Designs

My name is Rupen , We have done an app called speaking twitter and the app is more powerful then twitterfic , and the links was given by mistake to Nick which i think he has taken seriously

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speakingtwitter/id366646673?mt=8

Nick , the reason for not replying you is that i found you a time pass person who just enquire companies to know what they are doing and not interested in giving business , sorry fur misunderstanding

Guys why are you entertaining this type of things which are written against a company or an individual , however Nick i think has no better business other then that but what about other guys ?

I would like you to stop commenting on blog here and even warn Nick not to do this any further

Thanks
Rupen – Aston Designs

We are seeking for clients (which is actually not easy when you are not US based), but I think it’s hard when you have to deal with unfair competitors.
Some day one of India based companies contacted us to “cooperate” or something, then after losing some time for discussion I figure out that they just want money for work. OK I asked them for some sample pricing and project, I just get request to join linked in and that their expert will contact me ASAP when he back from somewhere (can’t remember), so it’s like 2 months and didn’t get any reponse. I think that they don’t have any iPhone portfolio and just seeking for any project.

Well, they aren’t really iPhone/Objective-C developers – they are PHP, MySql, etc. experts that “think” they can write an iPhone application. In the meantime, customers are expecting to get an application for some ridiculously low amount of money. Most of the programmers, and clients, aren’t even familiar with the Apple process. Unfortunately, the projects end up listed again and again because some programmers “think” they can write Objective-C.

For kicks and giggles I posted a job listing about 3 or so months ago. The job listing was to create a native application for ChatRoulette on the iPad or iPhone. Hahaha. You wouldn’t believe the responses…(still laughing). I questioned them on how they could implement flash, some tried to tell me they were expert at flash and could have the project done in 3 days. Seriously! Only one real developer (from the UK) came to the front and called me out – he is my friend now. I told him what I was doing and he thought it was funny. I think it made him realize as well how many people bid for jobs with no knowledge of the device, or SDK.

BTW – Here is a listing by someone on a freelancer site:

“We generate considerable number of iPhone development leads and would like to outsource to a developers offshore. Our company currently provides solutions to our clients within the united state, we intend to expand the business to cover all mobile phone development. Please respond with updated profile, sample projects, and references. Note: Please be very specific with your core skill so we can properly align your organization profile.”

He will definitely get what he pays for!! I think his projects are listed for $100 or less….lol. Really? He wants to outsource? Is he just cheap or ignorant? I didn’t put the company name because he doesn’t deserve any publicity.

But lets put some numbers on the calculation. This blog gets about 35k unique visitors per month. Of those, about 12k are from the U.S. If we assume that each professional iPhone developer knows on average two other developers, then I have 24k developers in my second degree, and 48k in the third degree. For a grand total of 84,000 iPhone developers within three degrees of separation. I think that covers the number of U.S. based professional iPhone developers with some margin. And that doesn’t include the majority of my readers who live outside this country, some of which very likely knows one or two developers here.