About
Mobile Orchard is a weblog keeping iPhone and iPod Touch developers informed with news, views, and links from the iPhone development world. The Mobile Orchard podcast features interviews with iPhone developers and those serving the community.
Launched in October 2008, Mobile Orchard is still in its initial growth phase, and every visitor, supporter, post comment, and link is appreciated. Help us get the word out! If there’s anything you think we could work together on or if you have news you want us to share with the iPhone developer community, get in touch at team -at- mobileorchard.com.
The Team
Mobile Orchard is currently headed by Dan Grigsby and Peter Cooper - both experienced in the worlds of online entrepreneurship and publishing (as well as both being Mac evangelists!)
Dan Grigsby
Dan was the founder of Merchant Planet, an early e-commerce provider ultimately acquired by Microsoft. Then he was the founder and initial developer of payMe.com, a successful early-days competitor to PayPal.
Recently, Dan has been working with startups and as a turn around CTO and he can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dcgrigsby
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper is a UK-based developer community publisher, with a successful portfolio of blogs in the Ruby and Rails communities. He’s author of Beginning Ruby, published by Apress, and has previously started and sold a number of tech-related online properties.
Peter can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/peterc
Press Mentions
Mobile Orchard has been very happy to receive several press mentions so far:
December 2008
- Fortune - The myth of the 99-cent killer app
- TUAW - Stats: 99 cent apps aren’t selling any better
- O’Reilly TOC - iPhone Updates: Missing Manual Already #2; More Book Apps Hit iTunes
- Boing Boing Offworld - iPhone games dominated by big publishers, but a couple of indies slip by
- Daring Fireball - Price and Popularity in the App Store
November 2008
- Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal - Will iPhone “orchard” bear fruit?
- Make - The iPhone rocket: The story (and data) of how an iPhone hit 1300ft
October 2008
- Rail Spikes - Why you’re drawn to mobile development
- Ruby Inside - Mobile Orchard: Like Ruby Inside, but for iPhone Developers


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