Now I see it! Your crash report says:
Unknown class InterfaceBuilderAppDelegate_iPhone
So, it seems that you set your App Delegate in IB to this class, but this class is not available in your project. Check this. Either you misspelled the class name or you should add the relevant class to your project.
Highly likely, your text field is connected to this app delegate.
Have you connected your text field in Interface Builder to the SimpleUIViewController
outlet?
Since it seems from the tutorial that you are not using MainWindow.xib, I would say that your project is missing running the proper delegate. Try making this change in your main:
int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, @"SimpleUIAppDelegate");
If my hypothesis is right, that should move your forward.