Getting into iPhone development

So I was late to the party getting an iPhone and it seems like every idea for an app is already taken. On a particularly inspired day I wrote down 3 ideas for apps while driving around, only to return to my desk later and find that there were several versions of them all.

I've now got access to the tools and the skilled people required for making an iPhone app (with my first game in development!) so if that capability is something that interests you, lets talk. 

I don't expect to be the next iPhone app millionaire but the several-million-strong built-in audience is appealing for a device that has such a relatively low outlay to get involved.

Compare making an iPhone game for a few thousand dollars to making a game for tens of thousands of dollars on any other platform and you can quickly see why it's such a popular platform (and why it's also flooded with cheap garbage!)

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Microsoft's Creative Destruction

It's not beneath me as an Apple user, to lead this newsletter with an iPhone story and follow it up with Microsoft bashing...

This article from the NY Times I found particularly interesting to read how such a big and powerful company cannibalises its own innovations through unhealthy competition. 

(For what it's worth I have a Mac with OSX and a Netbook with Windows 7, I'm all about harmony...)

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Type Tip: Brackets ( { < > } )

( ) Brackets are used to enclose an aside (like this) and reduce the emphasis of the text they enclose. The sentence should still read correctly if the text enclosed in brackets are removed.

[ ] Square Brackets are used in quotations to show insertions made by someone [like me for example] other than the author and to give a point additional information.

< > Angle Brackets are now commonly used to enclose web addresses within text, helpful to avoid confusion with the end of a sentence <www.rimfya.com.au>.

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Best of YouTube: Google Buzz Parody

Google Buzz has just launched ... and it seems like yet another conglomeration/duplication of the already far too many options for your Social Networking needs. I think this video gets it about right...

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