Mini, Micro Funds for App Developers

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The iPhone craze right now reminds me a lot of the rush in summer 2007 onto the facebook platform. After the initial success of the FB apps, didn't a lot of VCs also start up funds for facebook apps.

Of course, there are differences since for iphone apps, an app sold is a few dollars for the dev.

Look at where facebook apps are at now today. Do you think that the deluge of apps for the iphone will cause apple to implement similar system as facebook to control the quality of apps that goes into the store?

The app review at Apple is already under stress and criticism. But contrary to your facebook example, Apple recently started even being more lenient with app acceptance policy.

It seems they really want to scale the platform to the PC level as more apps on App Store means more iPhone sale as well. And the future is also towards the small form-factor, wire-free, intelligent UI based companion device for all one's information, communication and entertainment needs.

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