grats on getting funded. didn't i suggest to you about finding the right investor…
the palm pilot's dead. why do you want to go down that route? is there something you're doing that absolutely cannot be done with web technologies or that are absolutely required (and cannot be done via browser) as part of the initial project? the black berry is still the dominant handheld, samsung/lg have their low cost units, why marry into a platform?
why do you need a bunch of guys doing "server side stuff"? what could they all possibly be doing?
if you're working on the application development, why not scour the local colleges for a junior programmer intern for cheap? you supervise, ensure organization, coding standards, timelines, testing, etc, and let junior come in with his new fangled book learned technologies?
We decided to skip web 2.0 and go directly to mobile/web 3.0 🙂 Actually, Palm is dead. But the connected world of mobile apps just got started. And what's going to be interesting with android and iphone is that your mobile phone (if things work out) won't be tied down to software your cell carrier forces onto you. It will be the next computing/communication platform that should be truely "open."
That's where we're headed. The server side is needed to do all the data indexing/aggregation of what can't be done on the mobile side. The android platform won't be a single phone, if it plans out. The only reason why we're considering iphone is that just in it's recent release, Apple has been able to gain 28% market share in the mobile space, which trumps any other competitor combined. That number is astonishing…Not to mention that Apple just partnered with a bunch of VC's and created iFund. So, we won't be locking exclusively to one platform. The reason why we're picking these two platforms, is that both platforms are being pushed heavily by their creators AND no carrier has really a say. Which is good if you're a small company that's going to put a bunch of apps on the mobile phone.
And no, our idea isn't iPorn or Porn-to-Go, though I'm sure someone who creates something equivalent to PornTube for the mobile will make a fortune. Purely from a financial perspective, that would be extremely lucrative. But being that I'm married with a daughter, I sort of can't bring myself to do this and neither can they other folks on the team.
