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Whether you are listed on the App store or Handango, promoting your product always consumes time and money. The capital requirements for the iPhone are higher.
by martythemaniak 18y ago
Whether you are listed on the App store or Handango, promoting your product always consumes time and money.
The capital requirements for the iPhone are higher. $79-99 to be exact. Unless you need access to system or Crypto APIs ($20 for a key), developing for the Blackberry costs nothing.
Incidentally, I am a programmer sitting at home (in my spare time) and I look at my iPhone and because of Jobs' retarded politics I think "I can't do that". Then I look at the BB JDE/Simulator and get back to work using a decent API to write what'll hopefully be a neat little app.
- tstegart 18y agoThey're not higher, they're lower. Developing might be free, but replicating the advantages of the App Store will cost you money. How much? I don't know, but I know getting your app in front of that many customers in the way Apple does and making it that easy to buy is going to cost a lot more than $99. I was coming from an entrepreneurial perspective; building a business on the iPhone platform just seems easier.