Riiiight. I guess that makes sense if one disregards the fact that the iPhone OS is by no means a standard in the cell phone arena. There is plenty of competition out there, unlike there was for x86, which would be a pillar for an antitrust suit.
Well to be quite honest it's a bit slow and the design is basically nonexistent right now. Stuff like this shouldn't occur: http://prmanna.com/requests/list/1
I dig the idea though, but getting people to respect it will be a challenge.
Does anyone know what kind of revenue Skribit is getting these days? It would be interesting to know how the business has done in the last year or so since he's graduated and worked on it full time.
Completely agree. I'd like to know how much they really need to actually sell these things for. iPod Touches go for, what, $500 less than an unlocked phone? This sucks. I'd love to have a 3G Android phone on ATT as well as my iPhone, just to develop on an try out, but the market makes this impossible.
I disagree. The only Tumblr blogs I see are snippets usually consisting of artsy text-based graphics or camera phone pictures. And they don't allow comments. I just don't get it...
Forgive me, I read the article I just know little about BitTorrent. So people can still add torrents and they will work for others, it just uses a decentralized solution to find peers rather than asking TPB's tracker? So, nothing is really changing except the way your client is working?
I don't see the emphasis as a problem. The iPhone is a market leader and market leaders tend to get a lot of attention. Why should developers waste their time on other platforms if they aren't interested in them or don't feel there is enough market to make a profit? I only knew C before I got an iPhone, but I was excited to learn to develop for it. I think a lot of others share that same excitement, thus the amount of stories and enthusiasm surrounding the device.
Interesting reply. I have a couple of questions for you.
1. How do you get your clients?
2. Could you elaborate on "5-10k a year is much more common for niche apps with no marketing (what everyone seems to write)." I'm curious about your apps and results.
I've been following and waiting for the release of Boxcar 2.0 since it was mentioned on TechCrunch several weeks ago, glad to see it finally launched. I'm finally happy that I can have push Gmail, Twitter @replies, and Facebook updates. I'm even happy to pay the extra $1 for Facebook updates even though I know they are coming from the Facebook app in an update in a month or two.
I'm a huge Pandora fan as well. For some reason one day I decided to quickly profess my love for them via email and actually got a response asking if I wanted a shirt or hat. This blew my mind, and I rock my Pandora baseball tee often as a result.
Emails are very slow to load on my iPhone, and my contacts still haven't synced. Kind of crappy really.
EDIT: It updated my contacts and email seems to be working alright after about a half hour or so. I assume Google is just getting slammed by iPhone users at the moment.
The point isn't that you had an exception to the rule in your pocket. The point is that these things are now, thankfully, mainstream and popular. Oh, and comparing the stylus touchscreens and the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen is kind of like saying processed bologna and ever-delicious bacon are the same because people call them both meat.
I plan on using one in a EE senior design course, making an IR tracker using Wiimote camera with some servos for full pan and tilt control. Also going to interface a nunchuck for a manual control mode.