> 3. Develop something that is so far outside Apple's interests > that there would be no way they would even consider going there. Yes - but unless what you are producing is very vertical market, its very hard to guess what area they may suddenly go into.
> 4. Develop for in-house use. > > I plan to do 1 & 3 but also mainly 4. Meanwhile, I have some > Rev apps producing static web pages customized to normal > browsers or the iPhone and a Rev cgi server producing dynamic > pages, again specifically designed to display well on the iPhone. Apple reps have strongly emphasized that implementing a pure web solution is the least trouble. It makes a lot of sense to me to go this route unless there's some major performance issue, like creating a game that requires some sort of local acceleration. > My favourite so far is a portable instrument display. We have > various instruments that are read by a Mac which calibrates > the raw data and stores & serves it for any app that needs > it. Using any browser (iPhone or computer), anyone on the LAN > can connect to a certain web address, select one of these > instruments and get a real-time, constantly updating display > of this instrument's current value, in full screen on the > iPhone. It is very cool to be perched on the top of a ladder, > a long way away from any computer, filling a large tank while > watching it's current volume being displayed in the palm of your > hand:-) I think that's an awesome use :-) Real time data acquisition and monitoring and smart phones really go well together. I don't have an iPhone yet, myself, but I can see a lot of value in creating server monitoring applications with push alerts of some kind. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
