Mobile application developer Larry Borsato could have chosen to write software for Symbian, BlackBerry or Android, but he didn’t. Borsato chose Apple’s iPhone.
Borsato reports for The Industry Standard, “Since Apple owns the hardware and the operating system, they have created an experience on the iPhone that is virtually identical to that of the Mac. And they have also provided the ability to leverage existing Mac development on the iPhone by providing virtually the same Cocoa Framework as that of the Mac. If you know Mac development, you can develop for the iPhone, or you can easily port your existing code. I haven’t developed on the Mac in over a decade, but I was able to pick it up in a couple of days.”
“And the iPhone has already changed the mobile landscape. iPhone use of the Internet is much higher than that of other smartphones, and far exceeds that of the market in general,” Borsato reports. “Google sees 50 times more search requests coming from iPhones.”
“The iPhone is going to be the platform that makes the mobile Internet real and usable — essentially a mobile computer — which will drive the adoption of new mobile applications. Once you’ve touched the screen to follow a link in the exceptionally readable browser, you know that this is the standard by which all future mobile phones will be measured,” Borsato reports.
“My choice was a simple one. I merely selected the platform that has already redefined the mobile phone market,” Borsato reports. “And besides, have you seen the iPhone? It is seriously cool. After all, once you get past all the logical reasons for selecting a platform, every developer wants to work on the cool one.”
Full article via Computerworld here.