Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Build An iPhone App

By: Jon Russard

Jon Russard — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:55:00 +0000

An excellent source of branded apps is from Nov8rix (www.nov8rix.com). Customize your app for the iPhone or Android market. TUAW reviewed:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/13/click-and-drag-iphone-app-creation/

By: Why I think you should ignore the iPad for building apps – by Simply Zesty

Why I think you should ignore the iPad for building apps – by Simply Zesty — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:04:07 +0000

[...] are over 140,000 apps in the app store and that number grows at an alarming pace. I have spoken in the past about just how hard it is to market and iPhone app and making enough noise to stand out from the other 139,999 amazing apps is very tough. That [...]

By: In social media think about what you don’t do rather than what you do

In social media think about what you don’t do rather than what you do — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:18:05 +0000

[...] of social media often get swallowed up in the hype that is Google buzz or Chatroulette or new iPhone apps. Every week some new services or feature within a service is getting hyped and praised to an extent [...]

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:14 +0000

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By: Peter Fry

Peter Fry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:07 +0000

The iPhone has less than 10% of the marketplace. Yes is will rise a lot but at the end of the day money is much better being spent on obtaining a keyword to standard rate text number and getting ones website adapted so it can be viewed on all mobile devices. People will be opening links on mobile phones and viewing mobile websites with offers in them in return texts

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:53:24 +0000

For those app developers that don’t know Objective-C and Cocoa Touch and don’t want to outsource development, check out localbeacon (an iphone app builder) at http://www.bigforge.com. Great for those who want to build just one app or developers interested in white label. Full integration of Twitter and Facebook.

By: Why your law firm should forget about building an iPhone App | Attorneys Blog

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:55:20 +0000

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:15:25 +0000

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:49:09 +0000

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By: Keith Davey

Keith Davey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:03:17 +0000

While we sell IPhone development this is exactly what I was saying at the IT@Cork event.
It only makes sense to develop an app if you have something compelling to offer, the get rich quick approach requires pure luck.

The difference with Look And Taste is that it has real content backing it up.

You could be lucky and come up with the next fart app but its not likely.

You can of course justify building an app to strengthen an offering you already have, like building an app for users of a website you already have, but its likely that you will give that away for free.

However, the example you give with Flight Control is funny, as it is evidence of the opposite point of view. I am sure most people would be happy with 700k sales of their app!