[FoRK] $100M for iPhone Developers

[Ian Andrew Bell]

On 8-Mar-08, at 5:44 AM, Jeff Bone wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Adam L Beberg wrote
>> The $100M would have to yield 500M or they wouldn't even be looking  
>> at
>> it, which is outright stupid to expect given that the apps  
>> community is
>> mostly open source fans.
>
> As mentioned, I think they're going for verticals and enterprise  
> stuff.  The above doesn't apply...

Doesn't matter.  The entire internet-enabled software industry is  
shifting from client-pull applications to server-push applications,  
ie. notification.  Facebook is useful because it notifies you of  
stuff.  VoIP apps are interesting because they separate call signaling  
from the call path, enabling out-of-band notification.  The  
applications we use in work today (calendaring, GTD, project  
management) are all advancing toward pushing reminders and  
notifications.

Mobile apps and app frameworks are contra-trend.  It's no easier to  
push a notification in a timely fashion at reasonable cost to a mobile  
device now than it was a decade ago.  You ask the carriers for a rich  
framework for pushing messages to the phone, and they give you SMS.

It's a ghetto.

-Ian.