> As for Rev, far more important to get the basics working properly on all > three platforms than move into trying to support yet another, and one whose > market significance is doubtful.
While I have no idea of the market for Rev and how it is divided among the platforms, I would suggest that there is far more commercial sense in expanding Rev to the iPhone/iPad market, perhaps at the expense of the Linux market. So long as your app uses standard APIs (which would be RunRev's responsibility) and doesn't try to do anything too obviously against Apple's guide lines (which are agreed to in advance by all registered iPhone developers), then Apple gives you a fantastic marketing tool in the App store, as well as a standard platform where your apps run in their own sandbox and cannot be accused of interfering with other apps. To me, this seems like a fantastic market for us as developers, and I certainly plan to exploit the iPhone/iPad for in-house applications. as well. Talking in purely commercial terms, I think this would be a much more logical direction for RunRev than continuing to try to support Linux with all it's multiple varieties and it's general ethos for open source and mainly free software. There are already 75 million iPhone users and that number will only increase with the iPad. And these people are already used to paying for apps over the App store. Cheers, Sarah P.S. If you want my thoughts on the iPad, which are very different to Peter's & Richmond's, then have a look at my blog <http://www.troz.net/tech/> _______________________________________________ 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
