[FoRK] $100M for iPhone Developers

[Luis Villa]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>  >  P.S. Slightly tangential, but is it just me, or are we starting to see
>  >  slightly better uptake in Linux consumer applications? Amazon's Linux
>  >  mp3 downloader just came out; Second Life client is moving out of
>  >  alpha on Linux, Adobe continuing to pledge AIR for Linux, etc.
>  >  Possibly just anecdotal at this point?

(I'd cite google too, but they don't count; they're not investors
they're philanthropists.)

>  I'm having a bitch of a time making a business case for it.  That
>  hasn't changed over the years, and if anything it's gotten harder as
>  the unix elitists move to OS X.

<nod> That's more what I expect, which is why I've been pleasantly
surprised to see signs of continued investment.

Frankly, it's a miracle consumer-oriented linux hasn't completely
fallen apart. The people who came primarily because they hated
Microsoft have gone to OSX and the people who came primarily for the
free beer are happy with web apps. That doesn't leave many people, and
yet it continues to putter along.

Luis