iPadding around?

[Sarah Reichelt]

> As for Rev, far more important to get the basics working properly on all
> three platforms than move into trying to support yet another, and one whose
> market significance is doubtful.


While I have no idea of the market for Rev and how it is divided among
the platforms, I would suggest that there is far more commercial sense
in expanding Rev to the iPhone/iPad market, perhaps at the expense of
the Linux market. So long as your app uses standard APIs (which would
be RunRev's responsibility) and doesn't try to do anything too
obviously against Apple's guide lines (which are agreed to in advance
by all registered iPhone developers), then Apple gives you a fantastic
marketing tool in the App store, as well as a standard platform where
your apps run in their own sandbox and cannot be accused of
interfering with other apps.

To me, this seems like a fantastic market for us as developers, and I
certainly plan to exploit the iPhone/iPad for in-house applications.
as well.

Talking in purely commercial terms, I think this would be a much more
logical direction for RunRev than continuing to try to support Linux
with all it's multiple varieties and it's general ethos for open
source and mainly free software. There are already 75 million iPhone
users and that number will only increase with the iPad. And these
people are already used to paying for apps over the App store.

Cheers,
Sarah

P.S. If you want my thoughts on the iPad, which are very different to
Peter's & Richmond's, then have a look at my blog
<http://www.troz.net/tech/>