The Business of Software

Hi,

I found this today:
http://www.versatilemonkey.com/story.html

It looks like a good summary for a mISV in the BlackBerry market. I liked the insights about marketing and specially the amount of data available.

Fantastic .  I love all the data too- and great to see a success story.  Thanks for posting the link.

Thanks!

Interesting 'side' note to the iPhone.  I will tell you that iPhone application development and sales are quite good. 

There is only one little problem - getting paid.

Since Apple controls the purse strings (all of them) because of iTunes/App Store you get paid when they decide to pay you.  And, their application approval process is horrible.

One additional aside to the above, you can't contact them (or at least, you can't get a response from them) when you have questions about approval or payment.

"One additional aside to the above, you can't contact them (or at least, you can't get a response from them) when you have questions about approval or payment."

My problem is bigger, I am trying to sign for the iPhone developers program since March. I cannot pay directly because my country doesn't have an Apple Store. I must fax a form with my credit card, but their fax is ALWAYS busy, days, nights, Sunday, plain ALWAYS. I imagine a huge Apple Building with a huge customer billing room and just a lonely and busy fax inside...

Sad to read all the bad stories about Apple. It's scary and always make me think if it's worth to develop for iPhone with the risk to invest money and be rejected...

Footnote: Java is not the only option as RIM does have a (Visual Studio) .Net Framework SDK.

>RIM does have a (Visual Studio) .Net Framework SDK.<
Yes, but only for BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) applications.  License fees for BES (both for the server and users) are very expensive; so far I have only found Blackberry users who use BIS (Blackberry Internet Server), which is part of monthly data plans.  You do have a choice between Eclipse and NetBeans for an IDE.