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IMO, most of the mentioned services are not in danger if they focus on differentiation: Dropbox: How long will it take until all Dropbox-enabled apps are upgra

by mstolpm 15y ago

IMO, most of the mentioned services are not in danger if they focus on differentiation: Dropbox: How long will it take until all Dropbox-enabled apps are upgraded to iCloud and Dropbox integration dropped? Differentiation for Dropbox: Ease of use across MULTIPLE platforms. Camera+: Has a lot more to offer than just crop and rotate. Focus on best post-processing and sharing, turn it into a universal app. Camera+ can read the photo roll, so it can be used to optimize photos taken taken with the new camera app as well. Instapaper, ReadItLater: Focus on social features, cross platform sharing. Flipboard: Nothing in iOS5 seems to come near a "personal magazine". Newsstand? Not really something that comes near a 'personal social magazine'. To-do apps: What about cross-platform, collaboration, reusable lists? Lots of room to differentiate. In addition, all these developers either have made money through direct sales or advertising. Money they made by using an ecosystem built by Apple. They may make less money in the future if they can't differentiate. But as long as Apple isn't banning e.g. Dropbox-enabled apps, I don't think they are so 'unlucky' souls and nobody is forced to abandon these apps.

muruke 15y ago
It's interesting, I wanted to teach myself iOS development and the best way for me was to come up with a project and see it to the end. My project was location aware reminders. I wasn't going to get rich or anything, just was solving a problem I had and learning a new framework/environment. Seeing Apple's new Reminders app has really de-motivated me to finish it. Also before you point out TaskAve or any others, I only learnt about them today, in this thread. I purposely didn't go looking for location aware reminder apps as I knew it would de-motivate me to finish mine, and hence not learn what I wanted. Although I can't miss reading what is coming in iOS 5 :) Oh well, I'll have to think of something else to keep me interested.

by mstolpm 15y ago

muruke 15y ago

It's interesting, I wanted to teach myself iOS development and the best way for me was to come up with a project and see it to the end. My project was location aware reminders. I wasn't going to get rich or anything, just was solving a problem I had and learning a new framework/environment. Seeing Apple's new Reminders app has really de-motivated me to finish it. Also before you point out TaskAve or any others, I only learnt about them today, in this thread. I purposely didn't go looking for location aware reminder apps as I knew it would de-motivate me to finish mine, and hence not learn what I wanted. Although I can't miss reading what is coming in iOS 5 :) Oh well, I'll have to think of something else to keep me interested.