You don't really need VC funding to launch most iPhone applications. The cost of development is so low compared to other types of development. I'm the lone pr

You don't really need VC funding to launch most iPhone applications. The cost of development is so low compared to other types of development. I'm the lone programmer at my startup at the moment. However, I just left a team of 35 programmers trying to ship a PS3 game. I could see maybe 4-8 programmers top on an iPhone application project. There were 9 programmers on the last Sony PSP project I worked on. VCs don't want to fund that type of development either. They may fund an app that integrates somewhere in the cloud and also has a web interface. That's a bet that is actually big enough for them to care.