There is an interesting article on Gizmodo about the price drop on iPhone apps in comparison to other mobile apps that raised quite a debate.
There are the ones saying that the market will regulate itself for the better(we heard something similar for years) and others that see the quality of apps diminish as prices for development drop. I love to be on the negative side of things, that’s just my critical nature, but also because there is another big thing coming that will most surely accelerate the issue of more apps being developed, who will disappear amongst the millions of apps. As previously mention here, Flash not only launched full AS3 support for mobiles, they also included the ability to develop Flash apps for the iPhone through the appstore.
That might easily double the number of available mobile apps everywhere. Apple still has it’s restrictions on what it considers an app worthy of…, but let’s just say more iPhones will be hacked and other mobiles will become more attractive because they are open to the porn industry.
After a quick hype in doing mobile apps, developers will be expected to churn out twitter-farting apps by the wagon-load for an ever so diminished salary, because the app’s distribution concept of delivering low-priced apps but financing through assuring large number sales will fall flat on it’s face apart for companies with big marketing budgets to get the app to a high visibility in the shop and make sure enough people buy it. Which even then might not be assured.
So there is a lot to watch over the next few months. The xmas business will finally start when Orange and Vodaphone will come out with the iPhone in the UK, just like in other countries, where the iPhone-provider monopoly will end.
Ah, and congrats again to my friend Stefan from flashcomguru.com, he managed to get himself on the first list of Flash-based iPhone apps.
via gizmodo
