Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics - it is bad news. And then it gets worse
Frank analysis on just focusing on the iPhone for Mobile development.
The iPhone as a Minimum Viable Product Archetype | Sramana Mitra on Strategy
"Minimum viable product" is the idea that your product doesn't have to have all the bells and whistles of your competitors to be a success. The money quote from the article:
The minimum viable product definition should be accompanied by a
prioritized list of additional features that will increase profits and
market share. Sadly, it is easy for people to say that a product has to
do everything that the competition does, but this simply isn’t true.
iPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone - TheAppleBlog
Once you signup and download the SDK you can use this tutorial to point you in the right direction of building your very own iPhone/iPod Touch Applications.
Handbrake
look at handbrake for any Mac video conversion I might need to do.They have Handbrake for Windows also, and this Coding Horror Post has a lot of great references to tutorials, etc. for Handbrake.
update 11-25-08 - More Ars Technica Handbrake love.
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