Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by smncameron on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:00PM
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The developers who make apps 'for fun' aren't producing the blockbusters that make the appstore so important to the iPhone.
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by Zev on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:59PM
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No, but they do make up a fair number of apps that populate the top 100 lists for various categories (even if they're not runaway hits on the most profitable list).
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by m234 on Sunday April 11, 2010 @06:50AM
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You really think developing software in 25 year old technologies (Objective-C, Cocoa) is fun???
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
by cschep on Friday April 16, 2010 @06:07PM
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Coming from a lot of .NET at work it's been fun to learn something new, and play around with a new environment (Xcode). So yeah it's been fun. I don't know how long it will last, I've also not written anything terribly complex, so perhaps the pain points will surface more over time.
Handing my phone to my friends and telling them I made what they are looking at has been really fun. Also, telling anyone with an iPhone how they can just search the app store and find my little app is way fun. My Mom installed it even!
Developers will make apps where it is fun to make apps. I haven't had any horror stories with the app store, so it's still just more fun to make iPhone software than anything else.