[FoRK] $100M for iPhone Developers

[Jeff Bone]

On Mar 8, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:

>
> 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.

Yeah, so?

AFAICT from the iPhone SDK intro presentation, it appears that  
enterprises will control their own distribution channel as well.   
(They'd have to;  nothing else makes sense.  Fedex isn't going to  
deliver their proprietary app to Apple for internal distribution...)

I'm not sure, ultimately, that there's anything *technical* in the SDK  
that strictly prohibits any sort of background process, etc.  An  
enterprise with the need for constantly-running listeners could well  
decide to push down the entire BSD stack, and apps that are built on  
top of that.  And Apple wouldn't have any ability to restrict that,  
beyond fucking things up periodically with "upgrades" that break that  
sort of thing.  But on the vertical and enterprise side, they'd have  
little incentive to do that, as it would run counter to their desire  
for a healthy "business use" ecosystem..

> It's a ghetto.

Great creativity often springs from adversity.  Ghettos are cool.   
Just ask the rap industry.  ;-)

jb