I resigned from my job this week. My employer treated me well and I thank them but I’ve got a shot to do something amazing and I’m not going to pass it up. If I can be successful at this then all I need to earn a living is a laptop and an internet connection. I can do that anywhere in the world and on my own schedule. Wow. That’s a life changer. Now my challenge is to make it work. I need to not only maintain my current revenue but increase it. The only way I know to do that is to build great software. If you are one of the 9473 people who bought River of News this is good news for you. I think River of News is a great product and some other people do, too. Now it will get better and you can expect new products with the time I will be able to devote to iOS development. I thank Apple for making this a possibility for me. Everyone likes to complain about the App Store rules and, yes, the long, uncertain review process is frustrating. But no one else has ever enabled an independent developer like myself to connect with so many potential customers. Of course it serves Apple’s interests. They aren’t altruists. The genius is they created an ecosystem that benefits them, the developer, and the customer. That’s the kind of efficiency you are supposed to get from capitalism.