Monday, April 05, 2010
There's Gold in them there Apps
So on Friday night we hung around the house and watched movies on our big screen. We got the Rifftrax Christmas Special. It had a skit that Weird Al was in. That guy is always funny. I didn't get much sleep this weekend. Brennon is sick with a cough and so am I with this sphenoid sinus infection so it is hard coughing and sleeping at the same time, plus I think the steroid the doc gave me made me wired and has given me a headache. I hope my sinus drains and doesn't affect my brain and make me insane in the membrane. If it doesn't get better by the end of this week I might have to go to the hospital and get antibiotics through an IV. That would suck. They have to treat it seriously cause it could cause blindness, paralysis, coma and death. Sometimes I think I shouldn't look up my conditions on the internet. It could turn me into a hypochondriac.
Saturday we cleaned up a little. One of these days the last of the boxes will be unpacked. Sunday was Easter. Holly's mom came over and bought a good rib roast and ham. Holly and I picked up mom and took her to church and back to our house to hang out. It was the first time she had seen it. I turned on our waterfall and fountain for her. She liked the house. She played with Brennon too. He is quite the cutie.
I have been playing with my new HD2 phone. I have to say it is better than the iPhone, but only because I understand how to get the most out of it. The HD2 is more complicated that an iPhone as it does multi-tasking, can be a wifi hotspot and has many customization options. The screen is bigger and is in HD. Compared to the iPhone I can actually sit through an entire movie on it and not get eyestrain. However, there is a major drought of Apps. The iPhone is the king of apps. The good news is that because I have an iTouch I can hook up the wifi from my HD2 and get online access to my apps and not have to pay AT&T $90 a month.
And now I am presented with a gold rush. The HD2 had 40,000 orders placed last week and is a top phone. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.5, which is older than the new Windows Mobile 7. When the iPhone came out the apps that were presented with it grew and grew as developers found a source of income making ordinary people alot of money. However, now the App Store has over 1 Million Apps in it and it is all diluted. Guess how many the Windows Marketplace App store has? About 1,000. If I can develop and app for the phone it will be seen by all of buyers. I could charge say, $1 for it I could be looking at $40,000 coming in. So now the question is, what kind of app would be good? I already have the tools to make apps for it cause I am a Windows Developer. I would do the RideSearch thing, but I have found that people who can afford smart phones really don't have to carpool. I am thinking maybe a unique game or a utility. This will be fun. The rush is on.
Saturday we cleaned up a little. One of these days the last of the boxes will be unpacked. Sunday was Easter. Holly's mom came over and bought a good rib roast and ham. Holly and I picked up mom and took her to church and back to our house to hang out. It was the first time she had seen it. I turned on our waterfall and fountain for her. She liked the house. She played with Brennon too. He is quite the cutie.
I have been playing with my new HD2 phone. I have to say it is better than the iPhone, but only because I understand how to get the most out of it. The HD2 is more complicated that an iPhone as it does multi-tasking, can be a wifi hotspot and has many customization options. The screen is bigger and is in HD. Compared to the iPhone I can actually sit through an entire movie on it and not get eyestrain. However, there is a major drought of Apps. The iPhone is the king of apps. The good news is that because I have an iTouch I can hook up the wifi from my HD2 and get online access to my apps and not have to pay AT&T $90 a month.
And now I am presented with a gold rush. The HD2 had 40,000 orders placed last week and is a top phone. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.5, which is older than the new Windows Mobile 7. When the iPhone came out the apps that were presented with it grew and grew as developers found a source of income making ordinary people alot of money. However, now the App Store has over 1 Million Apps in it and it is all diluted. Guess how many the Windows Marketplace App store has? About 1,000. If I can develop and app for the phone it will be seen by all of buyers. I could charge say, $1 for it I could be looking at $40,000 coming in. So now the question is, what kind of app would be good? I already have the tools to make apps for it cause I am a Windows Developer. I would do the RideSearch thing, but I have found that people who can afford smart phones really don't have to carpool. I am thinking maybe a unique game or a utility. This will be fun. The rush is on.
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