I had the opportunity to speak at The Media Kitchen’s Digital Media Venture Capital conference last week, and took the opportunity to present on some emerging trends in mobile (and where I think the future of mobile lies.) Thanks to Barry Lowenthal & Darren Herman for organizing and hosting such a great event, First [...]
I’d like to introduce everyone to Robert Marini, the newest addition to Pinch Media’s rapidly-growing team. At Pinch Media, Rob is both a developer and our iPhone platform evangelist. Rob has several years of independent and contract experience as a Mac developer, and has been working on applications for the iPhone since the launch [...]
Over the past couple of months, Pinch Media has met with dozens of iPhone developers, including many running their own businesses - a lot of people are hoping to earn enough from their applications to support themselves and families. When an independent developer releases an iPhone application, a lot is at stake - if [...]
After WWDC, and as Apple’s AppStore launch grows closer, the quality of public discussion around the iPhone as a platform is increasing. For instance, see Paul Kafasis’ thought-provoking ‘What Should iPhone Applications Cost?‘ on O’Reilly’s Inside iPhone (including the comments). I can’t speak to what iPhone applications should cost, but I can give [...]
I was at Apple’s WWDC keynote this morning, which has been covered extensively elsewhere - see TechCrunch for an example. The event and the application demonstrations there only confirmed my belief that the iPhone SDK is transformative, shifting the iPhone from a nifty smartphone to a full-fledged computing platform. Particularly interesting (to me) [...]