I’ve been playing around with the iPhone SDK for a few months now. They’re cool devices and developing iPhone/iPod touch apps is a lot of fun.
But, I’m not so enamored with the platform that I’ll likely continue developing for it anymore. Apple tightly controls development on the devices, and that closed of a system is a big turn-off for me. From requiring $100 to join Apple Developer Connection so I can deploy to my own device to their App Store review and approval process, I’m just not sure it’s worth much more of my time, more so now that Android is running wild ( a serious iPhone threat, mark my words.)
For now, I’ll go back to Mac development.
on Apr 14th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
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