Apple iPhone – a new software market?

If you switch to a Mac you’ll probably start buying software. There’s a lot of great and inexpensive applications out there and you’re going to want some. No, you really are. Quite a few small companies and individual developers seem to make a reasonable living from Cocoa apps. I’m not too sure what’s different in the Windows world (but Rob blames Eric Raymond).

I talking without any data, but I don’t think there’s a thriving market for individual developers writing mobile phone applications just now. I imagine testing on 5 (?) different platforms with multiple OS versions and hundreds of different phones is a tad tricky. The iPhone promises a sizeable community of users, a single hardware and software platform, and a fantastic user interface to exploit. Now might be a good time to get into Cocoa.

Ok, its official that Apple aren't going to allow an iPhone software free-market, for now anyway. Oh well, back to Ruby on Rails - hey it's not so bad.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | Permalink | 0 Comments