I am all in

This was the topic of the lunch hour today. Not a day goes by wtihout the iPhone coming up in a conversation. . Basically, the way I see it, the developer community is hooked to the app store. And consumers like me would not mind spending on apps that are easy to use, fun and increases productivity. I can’t imagine myself posting a blog while in the bus stuck in Sydney evening rush hour. But thanks to my wordpress app in my iPhone I am posting my very first one right now! I personally believe if you want to write an app for the iPhone, it’s better to write a native one. I find myself trying not to use up network data when using apps, and because most of mine are native ones, I have the advantage of storing things locally and syncing or uploading later. This saves me a lot of bandwidth because I am not chewing it up when I am entering stuff or navigating as opposed to using the web app equivalent. Cellular network bandwidth is still expensive, and you don’t get much for the price you pay. Technologies like google gears will enable us to get around this, but it’s utilization for mobile web apps has not taken off that well. Maybe we might have to wait and see what google’s Android is capable of when it is released. So for now, when I start writing apps for the iPhone, I think I will stick to writing native ones.