PPK recently blogged that his clients are hellbent on having apps in the iTunes app store – whether it makes sense for their business or not:
Right now nobody’s interested in a mobile solution that does not contain the words “iPhone” and “app” and that is not submitted to a closed environment where it competes with [...]
I recently received the following question via email:
I’m quoting on an iPhone app for [an international company]. I’m yet to fully scope it out, but I’d really like to make it in Phonegap. And as much as I read that I shouldn’t be nervous about it… can’t help it. Tell me I shouldn’t be worried?
Anytime [...]
John Gruber over on Daring Fireball speculates that, with the release of iPhone OS 4 SDK, tools such as PhoneGap, MonoTouch, and Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler will be banned.
Yours truly quoted in Poynter Institute article “Gearing Up to Build an iPad App? Consider a Mobile Web App First” by David Stanton.
PLMK what you think!
Submitting (pun intended) to the App Store is for suckers.