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Hello. I have 20 years of IT experience, and am currently teaching myself iPhone programming (I am an old C programmer). I had a few websites 15 years ago (HTML 3.2!), and was also considering learning PHP or Ruby/Rails.
I had decided to learn iPhone programming since it was also a job skill that might be useful to have. I have a few ideas for iPhone apps that I think might fill a need, but they are complex enough that it will take me a while (year) to program them. I liked the iPhone market because it had a high barrier of Entry, and an easy billing system. My ideas are along the lines of the recent Cinemagram (video creation) app.
After reading TMFL, I am trying to consider all possibilities, so I am now considering learning web development - since there is a much larger pool of customers than iPhone owners. Where I work, they use Ruby-on-Rails, which I deal with in a support role. Learning RoR instead of PHP would help at my day job, so I may learn that. Of course the other 90% of the websites seem to use PHP. When I was studying Internet Marketing, people seemed to use mostly CMS apps (Wordpress) to create landing pages. I didn't want to be one of those people that creates 200 websites that all suck.
In the spirit of TMFL, I am starting to look for "needs", and find things that I can do better with either Price, Quality, or Convenience. I was considering that a lot of MJ's success came from the fact that his website catered to other businesses, rather than targeting consumers (he was being paid by companies). So perhaps I should think of what needs companies have, rather than what need web surfers have.
Before I read TMFL, I was solely focused on iPhone apps for consumers, now I am not sure which way I should go. I thought I should determine this "space" before I try to find a "need" to service within that space. I have read that by 2015, mobile devices will consume more internet data than websites, so that seemed to be the way things are going. When I look at website creation, it seems they have a very low barrier of entry, and there are zillions of them.
Sorry to ramble, my brain is fried after another "motivational" day at work. I guess my question is, is there any inherent advantages to operating in the website space vs the iPhone app space, regarding fast lane solutions? I am not concerned with the technical/programming challenges.
I had decided to learn iPhone programming since it was also a job skill that might be useful to have. I have a few ideas for iPhone apps that I think might fill a need, but they are complex enough that it will take me a while (year) to program them. I liked the iPhone market because it had a high barrier of Entry, and an easy billing system. My ideas are along the lines of the recent Cinemagram (video creation) app.
After reading TMFL, I am trying to consider all possibilities, so I am now considering learning web development - since there is a much larger pool of customers than iPhone owners. Where I work, they use Ruby-on-Rails, which I deal with in a support role. Learning RoR instead of PHP would help at my day job, so I may learn that. Of course the other 90% of the websites seem to use PHP. When I was studying Internet Marketing, people seemed to use mostly CMS apps (Wordpress) to create landing pages. I didn't want to be one of those people that creates 200 websites that all suck.
In the spirit of TMFL, I am starting to look for "needs", and find things that I can do better with either Price, Quality, or Convenience. I was considering that a lot of MJ's success came from the fact that his website catered to other businesses, rather than targeting consumers (he was being paid by companies). So perhaps I should think of what needs companies have, rather than what need web surfers have.
Before I read TMFL, I was solely focused on iPhone apps for consumers, now I am not sure which way I should go. I thought I should determine this "space" before I try to find a "need" to service within that space. I have read that by 2015, mobile devices will consume more internet data than websites, so that seemed to be the way things are going. When I look at website creation, it seems they have a very low barrier of entry, and there are zillions of them.
Sorry to ramble, my brain is fried after another "motivational" day at work. I guess my question is, is there any inherent advantages to operating in the website space vs the iPhone app space, regarding fast lane solutions? I am not concerned with the technical/programming challenges.
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