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Be sure to check out 'The iPhone Gold Rush' in the New York Times
I'm a bit slow on the uptake on this one, but be sure to check out The iPhone Gold Rush, an article about iPhone app development in last Friday's New York Times.
The article highlights some anecdotal development success stories, and mentions an iPhone programming class currently being held at Stanford.
None of this information is necessarily new to the iPhone developers in our audience, but it's the New York Times. The next time your parents and/or friends and/or loved ones ask you what, exactly, you're doing with all of the time you're on the computer, send this over their way. They'll probably drop the nagging a notch or two when they realize that you just might be rich some day soon.
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"They'll probably drop the
"They'll probably drop the nagging a notch or two when they realize that you just might be rich some day soon. "
--Yeah right, just because a small handful of people found success on the iphone doesn't mean everyone who read this article will. I bet a lot of these aspiring app developers never had any interest in developing software until they read about this 'gold rush.' Look, the iphone is a great platform because it has a huge install base and it's got a lot of people buying games that normally wouldn't. But articles like this give an imbalanced idea of the chances of success in the app market. I'm sure thousands of people are going to start developing apps based on this article; people with no prior experience and no idea beyond "Me want money." This will result in tons of crappy apps and games, which will clog the market with trash, lowering the chance of anyone coming across your app. I welcome the deluge of shovelware coming the app store, maybe a few 'failure stories' will scare the untalanted away from thinking they are 'ideas people' capable of making an intersting bit of software.