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iOS will it be the wave of the future or the past?

January 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

will Apple learn that in the day of this modern age, people have the right to do what they want to do, when you try to artifically restrict people to making them do what they do not want to do, then you have this…

Update, with the new Amazon App store for Andriod, could apple be facing the result of a lot of very bad business decisions?

I am attempting to decide if I want to renew membership in the iOS program mostly for two reasons, my clients are not served well by the current distribution method that apparently Apple has chosen to pursue.

The second reason is that the small business market is under served by the approval process.

I find both of these reasons to be disturbing and I would welcome the opportunity to relate to Apple that this does not have to be this way and that Apple by its chosen model of distribution is leaving a huge amount of money just sitting at the table.

For example, lets take mom and pops pizza in a mid western town of 85.000 people, 30 thousand of which use SMS and other methods of communication on smart devices, if mom and pop want an ipad app or an iphone app about their nice pizza and other special offers they might want to allow their customers to place an order through an app, how easy could that be, you get on your iphone and zap a hot pizza shows up at your door, I know I want one now.

But sadly, unless mom and pop are a larger corporation it seems that they have little chance of being approved at the Apple app store, and thus they are limited in how they can achieve their goals of growing as a business.

So what do mom and pop do?

Well they are moving toward Android, and yes I know its a bad word here, but lets have a look at it, anyway, because if we are to be grown up about business then this must be a part of the discussion, many small business owners are moving toward Android because developers are moving over to that platform simply because the market is not being served adequately by Apple.

There is a real opportunity to serve the mom and pop business ventures out there simply by adding a few categories to the App store you could provide mom and pop with a great method of distribution and attract additional developers to the platform, but so far that is not what is happening.

The developers I know are abandoning iOS in favor of platforms that are favorable to the developers clients, that is a problem and I am wondering if Apple is even aware of this problem, that is why I really do not know if I will renew, because, so far, what I see is a lot of questionable apps and a huge list of things you cant do with Apple, will things change?

Because if they do not I fear for the popularity of this platform.

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ipad opportunity

December 25, 2010 By

What you can do to take advantage of the coming software update for the ipad device, in fact with iOS 4.3 due out by the end of the month, you could easily say that the opportunity has not even begun yet.

So what came first the ipad or the ipad opportunity.
One might wonder, but for sure the ipad opportunity has yet to be even realized.

Be all you can be, that is what they say, however, one of the most important parts of developing and learning about the iOS the operating system that creates the ipad opportunity, is developing a plan that will work.

Can you still make money using the app store?

Or is there some secret to getting the job done.

The answer is Yes, you can, however, it is not as easy as you may have been led to believe.

Can you really make money creating ipad apps?

We want to provide you with the opportunity to do something special, something that will help you understand how unlimited the world of app creation actually is.

Did you know that the opportunity of a life time could await, you and that with the right kind of knowledge you can discover the truth.

The opportunity is just getting started ipads are changing the way people look at the internet and it is changing the way people look at reading books, Earlier this year, Apple unveiled a new product that took the web by storm.

The product was the iPad, a specialized mobile computing device built around the same successful “App Store” that drives the iPhone and iPod Touch.

ipad users can use built-in “apps” (short for application) to perform tasks such as browsing the internet, composing documents, sending and receiving email, and so on.

  • The real draw for most users, however, is the availability of hundreds of thousands of specialized applications that can be acquired for free or purchased from Apple’s online “App Store”. These apps are the core of the iPhone and iPad user experience, and are as diverse as the end users they’re designed to appeal to.
  • Some apps help users manage their social contacts, look up restaurant reviews, or learn more about the world around them. Others are designed simply to make the iPad emit a farting noise, or create the effect of a glass of beer being chugged. They all have one key element in common, however:
  • They all represent a highly lucrative opportunity for the enterprising developer.
  • More than than they represent a Rush to deliver content. However that rush will not be a short lived fad it will be a sustained delivery of content over many years.

Established Customer Base
Apple’s App Store on the iPhone has proven to be an unqualified success.

  • Since the store’s inception, the concept of the “app” has grown to overtake mobile computing, inspiring the creation of several competing devices and platforms built on the same technology. Despite that, Apple has seen more success and their devices such as the iPhone and iPad still account for the majority of smartphone and mobile computing devices sold in world. The numbers of apps available in the store has grown from just a few hundred in the beginning, to more than a quarter million unique apps that have generated more than 5 billion downloads worldwide.
  • What’s interesting about the iPad, however, is that it seamlessly runs all old iPhone apps. That means that it’s built to easily integrate with the pre-existing App Store that has already proven to be such a success and that attracts such a huge amount of user traffic every day. Users who are coming to the iPad are often already familiarized with the iPhone and the App Store, which means they’re already familiar with, and excited about, the world of apps. In other words, the customer base for selling iPad apps is already in place, even though the device has only been available for a few short months.
  • Many of  those who developed apps early on for the iPhone had to struggle to get the content and distribution method recognized, those who are looking now to develop early content for the iPad will be able to enjoy a wide audience with a built in distribution method that just so happens to be one of the most popular online marketplaces in decades.
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ipad the fact and the fiction

December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Well chances are unless you have been living under a rock for the last year you have heard of the ipad.

What you may not realize is that the hardware and the software are two different things, in fact, the ipad is still in beta as far as software is concerned.

Yes, Beta 3 to be precise.

So the opportunity is still red hot and it is still there for the smart marketer.

There are still options, and this is true because the software has not yet been finished.

The promise and the value of the ipad has yet to be realized.

The reason for this is that the software is not yet complete, which means that there are tons of opportunities.

I mean tons and tons, because the options keep expanding, with each update.

You can do some amazing stuff with the new features that are coming, however this comes with a back lash of sorts.

Since there is not GM seed, the result is yet to be realized and or even seen yet.

So be ready to move fast, if this is an area of interest and studies show that in fact this is a huge area of interest for many people.

So the fiction is that people think that they know all about the ipad, the fact is they haven’t seen anything yet…

Where will the story go from here?

Because literally all the software that is produced today is done so with software that was designed to run on an iphone.

Bet you did not know that.

The thing is that so few people actually know much about Xcode and how it works, because it is some say intentionally complex.

For a company that at one time was the producer of hyper card, you might expect to see some margin of that famous it just works commercial

applications, that just work well yes, Xcode is free, at least the software is, you still have to buy a yearly membership where you can access some additional information and features, which are equally hard to understand and even harder to implement.

So if you have purchased an ebook which tells you that you can make a million bucks with an ipad application, then you may want to see about getting a refund because it is just not that easy, what you bought was fiction, the fact is that even if you manage to get an app together, the chances of getting it in the app store are very rare.

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The new ipad

December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

There is a new kid in town and its iOS 4.2 which finally brings up to date the ipad platform.

It is like getting a new ipad

New features including folders, being able to run apps in the back ground and more.

So now ipad users can have all the features that previously were only available to iphone users, well almost all still no camera, but hey there are some things that you just do not want to photograph right.

Now you can add to your iPad space and has more room for more apps.

You can move apps into folders with drag and drop ease to remove some of that clutter your screens and it can help to keep your apps organized for fast access to your favorites.

In the near future there will be more devices that can interact with the ipad including wireless options that were once impossible but now come standard.

In fact you can now experience the ipad was meant to be.

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ipad ipod iphone

November 16, 2010 By

Three very different devices, yet the same in many ways.

Apple puts the i into many different things.

The ipad is just one of the most purchased new devices in history, considering the cost which is higher than you would imagine for such a limited set of features, (apple claims they are fixing that) but as we wait to see what will happen next with the ipad, lets take a look at some of the features that currently are available.

Touch, Gestures, and how to make it work.

When you using an ipad, there are many different ways to make the controls work.

With touch based interfaces it is not always clear how they work and how they should work, so you have to do some research to see what is expected, however, with hardware based gaming controls a thing of the past, it seems that we just need to find a way to adjust to the new interface.

Multi touch

Multiple touch is when more than one finger is used to begin to control a device.

Say you place one finger then a second finger close to the first, and then you pinch that will cause the interface to react to the “gesture” you just created.

It can be a little complicated and yes even confusing, but the younger generation seem to catch on just fine, so perhaps its us older folks that seems to have a hard time, you know the ones that cant use a remote control because its too complicated.

Still, you would think that eventually even us old folks could figure out all the different ways that you can touch a screen.

For example, I have a touch mouse that is sensitive, to how you touch it, I can scroll up and down, and sideways by just moving a finger across the surface.

Now that is interesting to me, but with the ipad and ipods, they are not as sensitive, and so require a little more patience.

Music and the way it works, may never be the same with all the different types of methods that you can use with these devices still no matter how you look at it, you have to be able to adapt and learn first otherwise no matter how smart these devices are we can use them if they are hard to learn how to use.

Just an observation, have a great ipad day.

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