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IPhone/iPad apps are for making money and the web is for innovating

12 points by superduper 16y ago

keltex 16y ago
The title should have been: iPhone/iPad apps are for Apple making money and the web is for innovating Other people might make money too, but Apple will make money.
- silvestrov 16y ago
  Enough with the anti-fanboi fanboism. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer: "Regarding the App Store and iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even, and that hasn't changed." http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wildly_successful_but_not_hugely_profitable_for_apple.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wild...
  - stcredzero 16y ago
    A vibrant ecosystem is worth 1000x high profits.
  - drewp 16y ago
    'Break even' doesn't mean they aren't making money, right? All we can conclude is that they have structured their accounting to say that the amount they're spending on the stores (whatever that means) is almost as much as the stores bring in.
stcredzero 16y ago
Take a look at the Popplet iPad app. I think this would support most of the functionality of Microsoft Courier, but in a multitouch friendly way. It also needs a web component to be a killer app. I'd say this is either real innovation, or at least the packaging of innovation for a larger audience.
jacoblyles 16y ago
>There won’t be any Googles or Twitters showing up first as an iPhone app. That is so, so wrong. The ubiquity of smart phones means that a large portion of people have a networked, location-aware computing device with them at all times. If you can't think of a game changing app with that (especially adding background processes), then you aren't trying Granted, most developers are just trying to turn a quick buck with a minimum viable product in the app store. Short-term utility maximization says that is what they should build. But there is room for ambitious projects that will change the way we live. All it takes is a developer with an idea and the guts to go big.
joe24pack 16y ago
.. site appears to be down with database problems (???).
jawngee 16y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" - pretty innovative.

12 points by superduper 16y ago

The title should have been: iPhone/iPad apps are for Apple making money and the web is for innovating Other people might make money too, but Apple will make money.

silvestrov 16y ago
Enough with the anti-fanboi fanboism. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer: "Regarding the App Store and iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even, and that hasn't changed." http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wildly_successful_but_not_hugely_profitable_for_apple.html http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wild...
- stcredzero 16y ago
  A vibrant ecosystem is worth 1000x high profits.
- drewp 16y ago
  'Break even' doesn't mean they aren't making money, right? All we can conclude is that they have structured their accounting to say that the amount they're spending on the stores (whatever that means) is almost as much as the stores bring in.

stcredzero 16y ago

Take a look at the Popplet iPad app. I think this would support most of the functionality of Microsoft Courier, but in a multitouch friendly way. It also needs a web component to be a killer app. I'd say this is either real innovation, or at least the packaging of innovation for a larger audience.

jacoblyles 16y ago

>There won’t be any Googles or Twitters showing up first as an iPhone app. That is so, so wrong. The ubiquity of smart phones means that a large portion of people have a networked, location-aware computing device with them at all times. If you can't think of a game changing app with that (especially adding background processes), then you aren't trying Granted, most developers are just trying to turn a quick buck with a minimum viable product in the app store. Short-term utility maximization says that is what they should build. But there is room for ambitious projects that will change the way we live. All it takes is a developer with an idea and the guts to go big.

joe24pack 16y ago

.. site appears to be down with database problems (???).

jawngee 16y ago

"Error establishing a database connection" - pretty innovative.