I'm currently diving through the iPhone HIGs and developer do***entation
in preperation for July 11th. From what I've seen, it's going to be
really easy - especially when compared to the Palm platform, which I
gave up on very early - to develop little bespoke personal apps that do
simple little things exactly the way I want them to. It also seems a
helluva lot easier and quicker than developing desktop apps (though it
requires more upfront planning) so I won't get daunted by the potential
effort involved in 'whipping up' a quick app, as I have before now.
That, in my eyes, is great. It means that my iPhone will go beyond
'personal' in that it has apps that I have chosen and downloaded, and
will instead become 'personal' in that I can have things that fulfil my
*exact* requirements, however unusual or specialised.
I've already got plans for a shopping list, a morning alarm, a book
reader and a notes app; all of which are dead simple and will be
available by the dozen when the app store opens... but none of which
will behave exactly the way I would like.
Yeah, I'm a control freak.
Anyone else looking forward to developing, or already developing for the
iPhone, purely for personal reasons?
-zoara-
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
- Charles Darwin
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