http://www.fronde.com/blog/2009/02/why-companies-probably-shouldnt-develop-an-iphone-app/ Fronde, The Future of Business Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:40:30 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.fronde.com/blog/2009/02/why-companies-probably-shouldnt-develop-an-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 Adrian White Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:30:37 +0000 /blog/?p=38#comment-3213 My comments ... If a business is interested in developing an internal application there's a enterprise license that avoids the approval process. Costs are coming down all the time for developing iPhone apps as more dev's move to the platform. The reason business's are interested in building the app's is the demographic the iPhone attracts. In NZ mobile broadband is still relatively expensive ... by suggesting iPhone enabled web sites you're really missing the point of the 'mobile' smart device by excluding those out and about who are carefully managing there data allowance. My comments …
If a business is interested in developing an internal application there’s a enterprise license that avoids the approval process.
Costs are coming down all the time for developing iPhone apps as more dev’s move to the platform. The reason business’s are interested in building the app’s is the demographic the iPhone attracts. In NZ mobile broadband is still relatively expensive … by suggesting iPhone enabled web sites you’re really missing the point of the ‘mobile’ smart device by excluding those out and about who are carefully managing there data allowance.

]]> http://www.fronde.com/blog/2009/02/why-companies-probably-shouldnt-develop-an-iphone-app/comment-page-1/#comment-14 skc Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:52:23 +0000 /blog/?p=38#comment-14 Nice post. My bet for the future is when phone hardware becomes even more powerful and the line between them and netbooks blur to the extent that we will be able to stop writing multiple clients and only need one web app and/or one app per platform. Nice post. My bet for the future is when phone hardware becomes even more powerful and the line between them and netbooks blur to the extent that we will be able to stop writing multiple clients and only need one web app and/or one app per platform.

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