[FoRK] $100M for iPhone Developers

[Jeff Bone]

One more bit apropos the KPCB iFund:

I fully expect that most of the portfolio companies in that thing over  
its lifetime will be vertically-focused app developers and tool- 
builders focused on those vertical app developers and enterprise  
developers.  Crackberry has been the closest thing to an enterprise  
standard mobile platform that we've seen so far, yet it wasn't  
particularly open to the enterprise or vertical-app developer.  iPhone  
is in many ways the first credible platform to get there.

One risk is that Apple's competitors learn, adapt, and become viable  
alternatives quickly enough to offset Apple's first-mover advantage  
here.  But KPCB seems to be betting that this won't happen to any  
significant degree.

jb


On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Luis Villa 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?
>
> Definitely.
>
> I expect that Everex cracking the Wal-Mart channel has a lot to do  
> with this.  Similarly, I've seen signs of growing customer  
> dissatisfaction w/ Microsoft over the last couple of years...
>
> jb
>