Episode 1: James Thomson

In this episode, Paul talks to James Thomson about how to get featured on the App Store, creating a good work from home environment, and how to market indie apps successfully.

Detailed topics:

• How to get featured on App Store
• The effects of being featured by Apple 
• Promotional artwork request by Apple
• Project management 
• How much should be in a release?
• PCalc evolution and code sharing
• Catalyst and code sharing 
• Spoiler alert! Star Trek the Motion Picture 
• New curser/hover button support for iOS coming
• Functionality and aesthetics 
• PCalc about screen and work philosophy
• How does one start with AR?
• From SceneKit, moving onto AR
• PCalc about screen
• The byproducts of learning: new content and unintended new products
• Dice and mental health, how to stay sane when working from home
• Mental wellbeing: games and recreational coding
• Solidarity with folks finding it difficult to work
• Be kind to yourself
• How to create a good working environment
• Take care of yourselves 
• Is this Apple’s chance to use WWDC 2020 to create a good online conference experience?
• Is SwiftUI going to be the future and is it going to replace UIKit?
• Parallels between UIKit and SwiftUI advancing
• What do you think of Apple’s own calculator apps?
• What will Apple ship for iPadOS first: Xcode or Calculator? 
• What new tech is going to go into Dice/PCalc next?  
• Does advertising on other sites help?
• Thoughts on marketing
• Thoughts on subscriptions and Apple Arcade