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By: tinyComb » Blog Archive » More Tapulous Employees Abandon Ship As CEO Changes Course

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:22:23 +0000

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Tapulous Entry Level Jobs | One Day, One Job — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:27:47 +0000

[...] advice. The issue of usefulness has been a big one at Tapulous, and it actually resulted in four key employees’ leaving Tapulous. Tapulous’ CEO wants to produce simple apps that are fun to use and easy to produce; whereas, [...]

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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:45:39 +0000

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Tapulous to License NIN Music for TTR | FingerGaming — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:18:32 +0000

[...] admist all the noise raised about the original employees and founders of Tapulous bolting from the company, Tapulous still manages to convince Trent Reznor to hop onboard the Tap Tap Revenge (Free) hype [...]

By: NIN Edition of Tap Tap Revenge Brings Licensed Content To Apple’s App Store

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:08:31 +0000

[...] today’s announcement, Tapulous has also released a list of its new hires (earlier this summer most of the company’s original team left because of disputes over the direction of the company). Among the hires are designer Bryan Bell, [...]

By: Seeking to Understand » Blog Archive » Winds of Change

Seeking to Understand » Blog Archive » Winds of Change — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:42:32 +0000

[...] just to get this out of the way, a lot of stuff happened last week. I no longer work at Tapulous and am moving on to another iPhone company that has a very different [...]

By: At Last, You Can Create Spreadsheets On Your iPhone

At Last, You Can Create Spreadsheets On Your iPhone — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:01 +0000

[...] Unfortunately, the store has largely failed to deliver on that promise, as developers have shied away from full-featured, useful apps in favor of flashy novelties that are cheaper to produce and more [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:21:30 +0000

This worries me, whenever a brand new company (or relatively new company) loses most of its original employees it usually loses its way and ends up closing its doors.

By: Alonso Perez

Alonso Perez — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:53:46 +0000

It has been my experience that people who use the classic row boat or football team analogies don’t understand creative software development. This approach is fine for corporate software, especially large projects with many players across an organization and clearly defined goals.

But I don’t think it’s right for iPhone apps at this point. This is a fluid market and the people who get a piece of it will be those who come up with something new, worth having, and unique. An app that is easy to develop will also be easy to imitate.

By: Alonso Perez

Alonso Perez — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:02:36 +0000

Dude! That’s wrong in so many ways…

Louie explains it. Apple is still around because Jobs got it back. It was literally dying by 1996. Jobs needed to mature a bit, but Scully had no clue whatsoever. There would be no Apple today if Jobs had not returned.

For top coders, the work they do is by definition a BIG part of their work conditions. The best people don’t stay at Google because of the food. They stay because Google has a lot of very interesting work to do in a wide array of domains, and you can spend 20% of your time doing a project of your choosing.

By: Lost Employees

Lost Employees — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:48:04 +0000

All this attrition reminds me, metaphorically, of my favorite Leper joke…

Q: What did the leper say to the prostitute?

A: Keep the tip!

http://cackl.co...-the-prostitute

By: Tristan O'Tierney

Tristan O'Tierney — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:56:01 +0000

Junior engineers? Yeah cause having people that worked at companies like Apple and VMware are “juniors.” And if you consider Mike Lee unknown in the Mac world then you truly have no idea what you’re talking about.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:31:19 +0000

It looks to me like some fairly junior and unknown engineers who were cleaning up a set of apps that other people built are not longer with a company they don’t agree with the strategy for. This was a gutsy move by the leadership of the company. Everyone needs to row in the same direction …and if you aren’t get out of the boat and swim to shore or a different boat.

By: Miles Peters

Miles Peters — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:18:00 +0000

@Fredo, correct its @Frodo and I agree with your comments.

By: Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:15:57 +0000

These guys seem pretty full of themselves. They think they are going to be a billion dollar company (don’t all start ups?). I’ve been in to see them and they basically raped me for ideas and showed me the door. I understand that happens, but they aren’t making any fans in the community that builds and manages apps.

Still, they have some cool products so far.

By: Tristan O'Tierney

Tristan O'Tierney — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:10:55 +0000

Twinkle 1.2 was pushed to the app store last night. Should be out soon.

By: Tapulous Loses Their Development Team; CEO Bart Decrem Attempting To Revamp A New One

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:58:12 +0000

[...] unfortunate to see this happening after seeing the success of the original Tap Tap. TechCrunch noticed that Tap Tap is featured on a screen shot on Apple.com with the heading: “iPod touch. The [...]

By: MILE

MILE — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:45:19 +0000

Actually the one thing I was waiting for to come from Tapulous was “FriendBook” and it seems it’s never going to happen…!? Too bad…

I tried using “Twinkle” a while but I never liked that it made me set up a separate account…and honestly, I never understood the appeal of “Tap Tap Revenge” anyway…!? Seriously, why is that so popular…?! I tried a few times to get into it, but you just keep tapping the screen…it is so boring…!?

Anyway, I’ll be keeping an eye out on the company, since “Twinkle” is a nice and well executed app, even though I don’t use it and because “FriendBook” was promising enough — but I don’t really expect anything big in the near future…