Thank you Sarah,
This is just the beginning of a huge advantage for runrev developers.
Touch screens have been around for a long time but with no real
customer base. The size and features of the iPad and the exposure to
75 Million people is enticing enough for me. I have been writing my
first and second apps for the iPhone and am branching out to include
the iPad.
Compare: I wrote a free crossplatform app and marketed it on the
internet and got 50 downloads over two years. I co-wrote a free iPhone/
iTouch/iPad app and didn't market it, instead we just put it on the
App store and got over 4,000 downloads in less than a year! ! !
This is by far a fantastic market for us developers and also for
runrev to pick up on technologies like touch events and to explore
portability issues.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
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/>
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