Get My Cushion Plumped...

[Moscow Mule]

I seem to recall that you don't really need to be an iPhone dev to write apps anymore.

You can get an export plugin for Flash that does it all for you so if you can Flash, you can iPhone.

[NickFitz]

I seem to recall that you don't really need to be an iPhone dev to write apps anymore.

You can get an export plugin for Flash that does it all for you so if you can Flash, you can iPhone.

I can't abide Flash

Anyway, I do this stuff (learning new languages and APIs and so forth) because I like it

If people are dumb enough to give me money for doing it, so much the better

[Moscow Mule]

I can't abide Flash

Anyway, I do this stuff (learning new languages and APIs and so forth) because I like it

If people are dumb enough to give me money for doing it, so much the better

days

[TheFaQQer]

I'll stick with my BBC Micro thank you

has no-one done an iPhone version of Chuckie Egg yet, then?

[NickFitz]

One of the other contractors here has just been looking through Jobserve.

There's a gig on there that I'm absolutely convinced must be the place oop North that I was at in February - April

I think I'll give that one a miss - nice enough company, but the location was so rural that I once had to drive ten miles to Bradford and back to get a copy of The Grauniad

[RichardCranium]

Get My Cushion Plumped...

Sorry, NF, we've worn out all the bench cushions; you'll have to bring your own.

But I'll bagsie a smooth patch for you with a good view of Jobsearch City and pop a hot water bottle on it, if that'll help.

Do you need a few of these popped in the chiller box?

[NickFitz]

Do you need a few of these popped in the chiller box?

[Sysman]

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.

Yep, Objective-C and Cocoa are pleasant to use. The traditional Mac users never got used to command line stuff and will happily pay for a nice GUI for stuff Linux users would do at the command prompt. For simple apps $30 might be too much - you can get some quite juicy apps for that. Amadeus Pro for example is the bees knees in its field and costs $40.