Rev and the iPad

[Peter Alcibiades]

If you boil this thing down to the essentials, it seems to go like this:

Is it important to have one set of tools which do both desktop and mobile
apps?  If yes, then can you get this with OSX and App Store? If yes to this,
do you really need Android as well right now?  

You could argue it turns into a nice to have only, so you'll focus on the
App Store, and that you are excused in this case from any need to clean up
the Linux Rev offering or do Android any time soon.  I think this would be a
mistake, but you can see reasonable people arguing that resource is limited,
and with an Apple centered user community, maybe it would carry the day.

If no to this, ie you can't get into the App Store, can you get one set of
tools for mobile and desktop on Android and Linux Desktop?  If yes to this,
is the market for Linux development tools viable for Rev, in conjunction
with Android?  If so, get busy PDQ on cleaning up Rev for Linux, do Android
functionality, and go.

It seems that there are a couple of things you can't or shouldn't try for as
Rev in this situation.  One is to retreat from the App Store and not have a
mobile alternative.  There only seems to be one of these, Android.  But to
do Android you have to clean up the Linux offering if you are to offer one
environment.  It does seem increasingly likely that cross platform in this
industry doesn't any more mean Linux Mac and Windows, it means mobile and
desktop and network.

Another would be, leave Linux as is, and just focus on Android.  Cross
contamination will kill this one.

This stuff is really difficult.  Scenario planning is just about the only
way for a group to get to the bottom of these kinds of choices, but its a
lot of work.  On the other hand, these are basic issues about the business,
so you cannot avoid navigating through them.  Its a matter of do you do it
well or badly.

Peter


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