Carlos Balsalobre has always been dedicated to the academic branch of sports sciences, a discipline in which he obtained his doctorate and began to study biomechanics, performance… In his daily life he needed complex and expensive machines to be able to measure the performance of athletes, but the launch of the iPhone 5s almost nine years ago, which for the first time presented slow motion, it made him think that it might be possible to integrate the elementary technology of these machines into a mobile devicemuch cheaper, widespread, versatile and portable.
He set to work and after verifying that the prices he was being asked to have third parties develop his idea were unaffordable, he ended up learning to program himself
In this interview, Carlos tells us about the challenges he has faced, how he has evolved over the eight years he has developed and certain aspects of programming beyond code, such as monetization. For example, he explains that his apps always had a one-time payment until he merged the functionality of all of them into one, already under a subscription model, even on the recommendation of Apple itself at the era.
42 minutes where we can take inspiration from someone who went from zero programming knowledge to eight apps on the App Store, where he also gives advice to anyone who’s ever felt the need to learn SwiftUI and finish their first application.
In inf inite loop
This is one of this week’s episodes of Infinite Loop, the daily podcast of Appleswill, broadcast from Monday to Friday at 7:00 a.m. (Spanish peninsula time), in which we talk about Apple and its competition seen through the prism of the Cupertino company. This is a ten-minute podcast, presented by Javier Lacort and edited by Santi Araujo.
And these are the other episodes of this week, you can listen to them in full from this page.
#630: At the Apple Store at 3 a.m.
A nighttime visit to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York to answer a question: who goes to an Apple Store at three in the morning on weekdays, and for what?
#631: Keyboard In favor of a Touch
What if the Mac ended up having a virtual keyboard like that of the iPhone? With e-ink keys? Or not even with keys?
#632: A Look at the Nothing Phone
The Nothing Phone is already here, although it won’t be available for purchase until July 12, and not by just anyone; but we can already start talking about it from the point of view of its design, the differential promise with which it debuted as a manufacturer.
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