I'm a former Apple engineer who completed a Ph.D. dissertation in 2015 in Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies on the culture of third party Cocoa, iOS, and NeXT developers. I collected stories from NeXT and Apple alumni from the 1990s and 2000s, conducted interviews and ethnographic research with Cocoa and iOS indie developers and app companies, including members of Seattle Xcoders, and the Big Nerd Ranch, in 2011 and 2012.My dissertation explores how culture, values, ideology, practices, affect, identity, and community are wrapped up together for Cocoa programmers. I examine their relationship with Apple, their celebration of the indie developer as the ideal vocation, their commitment to using the Cocoa frameworks to empower themselves and their users, and the best practices, conventions, idioms, and design patterns that go with using Cocoa.
Listed skills include Os X, Cocoa, Ios, Objective C, and 12 others.