Get My Cushion Plumped...

[DimPrawn]

Good luck Nick with the iPhone apps. Hopefully you can make it a profitable plan b?

Can you develop iPhone apps with C# and Mono?

[Sockpuppet]

Sorry to hear that Nick.

[NickFitz]

Good luck Nick with the iPhone apps. Hopefully you can make it a profitable plan b?

Can you develop iPhone apps with C# and Mono?

Cheers - Plan A would be better; contracting is Plan B (and permiedom is Plan Z)

Dunno about C#/Mono for iPhone - I vaguely remember coming across some talk of that, but I'd rather just get stuck in with Objective-C

[NickFitz]

Sorry to hear that Nick.

Cheers SP - I don't see it as a major problem. When it was up in the air last week as to whether there would be an extension or not, I was looking at it very much in terms of it being sensible to take it if offered, whilst actually wanting to have a bit of a break.

Now I no longer have to make a decision

[norrahe]

what about apps for the linux version phones, more scope there?

[original PM]

Hey Nick if I remeber correctly my last bit of advice to you was to go goose the secretary at the staff xmas do - with the possible issue that you would be on the bench shortly afterwards

you didn't take my advise did you???

[NickFitz]

what about apps for the linux version phones, more scope there?

smaller market

Anyway, I've never bothered getting my head around Cocoa programming before; I might as well have some fun on the iPhone, maybe even make a few bob, and simultaneously develop skills that can be applied to the OS X desktop market. Mac users tend to be quite happy to pay for reasonably-priced apps (around the $30 mark), whereas Linux users resent having to pay for anything.

[NickFitz]

Hey Nick if I remeber correctly my last bit of advice to you was to go goose the secretary at the staff xmas do - with the possible issue that you would be on the bench shortly afterwards

you didn't take my advise did you???

Nope, I was too busy invoicing to attend

[norrahe]

smaller market

Anyway, I've never bothered getting my head around Cocoa programming before; I might as well have some fun on the iPhone, maybe even make a few bob, and simultaneously develop skills that can be applied to the OS X desktop market. Mac users tend to be quite happy to pay for reasonably-priced apps (around the $30 mark), whereas Linux users resent having to pay for anything.

Not really the market is expanding rapidly with more manufacturers taking on said applications and software, whereas the iphone market is limited to one manufacturer and there's only so much time before it becomes passe.

though going by some of the people i know who have iphones, they'll buy anything that looks pretty and apps that do nowt. Whereas you're linux user will be harder to please

[NickFitz]

Not really the market is expanding rapidly with more manufacturers taking on said applications and software, whereas the iphone market is limited to one manufacturer and there's only so much time before it becomes passe.

though going by some of the people i know who have iphones, they'll buy anything that looks pretty and apps that do nowt. Whereas you're linux user will be harder to please

Yep, and there's also the fact of having to take a much wider range of hardware into account: "Oh, this phone doesn't have an accelerometer, that's a funny width for the screen, hmm the address book is returning values in a character encoding I wasn't expecting...."

It'd be like trying to get the same code working for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC-464 and Oric Atmos: more trouble than it's really worth and none of them are just right, so you end up having to rewrite things all the time. I'll stick with my BBC Micro thank you