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Future Workshops is hiring! We are an exciting company, looking to take Apps to the next level. If you think you've got what it takes to make the jump, read on below...

(We also offer a referral fee of £250 if you put us in touch with a friend who we subsequently hire)

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iTunes Cloud

At Future Workshops we are huge fans of cloud based services and storage. We use Dropbox as a distributed file system, Basecamp to manage projects, Beanstalk as a code repository, and most importantly Google Apps to manage our email, calendar and contacts.

With the assumption that Apple expects people to own both a Tablet, an iPhone and a desktop or laptop computer, we assert that moving iTunes to the cloud is now an urgent necessity.

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Apple Tablet

Speculation and rumour about Apple's tablet have reached feverish levels over the last few weeks.

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Parker's iPhone App Design

Parker's Car Pricing Guide (iTunes link) was a Top Ten Grossing App - and Top Twenty Paid App - in the UK App Store. It was also featured by Apple on iTunes - giving the App a very healthy sales boost!

We believe healthy portion of this success was due to the simple, polished, fun design of the App. I hope that others can benefit or take inspiration from the process Future Workshops follows, detailed below.

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Double Down iPhone, Double Down Objective-C

Double down is a phrase coined in BlackJack, however Jason Calacanis has long been applying it to the tech world. Essentially it involves doubling your bets if you hold a good hand.

Right now, anybody involved in the iPhone market in the UK holds a decent hand. With T-Mobile and Orange merging, and Orange and Vodafone to sell the iPhone by 2010, only 3 will be left out in the cold. And that is before considering the forthcoming Apple tablet.

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