Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'iPhone'
This is How You Make Money in the App Store
Of late, we've been forced toward a bit more pessimism as far as iEntrepreneurship--starting companies to make applications for sale on smartphones such as the iPhone--is concerned. As cool as it sounds in concept, we've reluctantly reported that it actually...
An iPhone App Store Warning
Newsweek runs a rigorously reported story that finds--and this is something we've warned about in the past--that for all it seeming entrepreneurial opportunity, Apple's iPhone App Store will probably not make you rich. "Not only have most sellers failed to...
Apple's 'Genius' Idea
Nothing can change the fact that designing an application for a larger, broadly used platform is something that both other large corporations do and something the proverbial tinkerer in his own basement can accomplish. And that's why there's a sense...
The New iPhone and You
It would be weird if we didn't write about the iPhone and its Application Store and iEntrepreneurship--the accessible and potentially lucrative opportunities that exist for small app developers--on this, the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (live-blogged by the...
The Reality of the iPhone App Store
Our frequent iEntrepreneurship triumphalism--our belief that certain big-company platforms such as the iPhone, the BlackBerry, and the like (also Facebook and Firefox) are great things for ambitious entrepreneurs to leap off of with their own innovative products--makes us duty-bound to...
iEntrepreneurship
This weekend, the New York Times tackled a subject that, as you can see, is near and dear to our heart: the modern-day Gold Rush that is the making of applications for the iPhone and other smartphones. Have a good...
Of Video Games, iPhones, and Entrepreneurs
This New York Times article on the changes and flattening afoot in the video-game industry takes primarily the perspective of the established video-game companies--the Electronic Arts and Take-Twos of the world, as well as much larger corporations, such as...
The iPhone Entrepreneurs
We enjoy remounting old hobbyhorses from time to time, and one of our oldest is our belief that smartphones--and, yes, especially the iPhone--are prime grounds for ambitious entrepreneurs: they provide prolific and accessible platforms for all manner of applications....
Apple's Smart iPhone Decision
This isn't exactly the biggest news surrounding Apple right now, but it is worth noting--and applauding--that Apple seems to be rethinking its iPhone application store policy, which in turn will hopefully work out well for the myriad entrepreneurs currently toiling...
Why Aren't You Designing iPhone Apps?
Take a look at our coverage of Apple's iPhone: quite a lot for a site concerned with small business owners, right? Certainly Apple is no small business. But the reason we cover it so closely, as well as its...
Is Apple Blocking Google Voice?
NOTE: GOOGLE VOICE IS NOW OBTAINABLE FROM THE IPHONE APP STORE, WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE ORIGINAL POST. THAT SAID, THE LARGER POINT, ABOUT APPLE'S SECRECY AND BIZARRE CAPRICIOUSNESS IN TERMS OF APP STORE APPROVAL, STILL VERY MUCH...
Follow Loopt's Lead
Friendly tip for any of you out there who think you have what it takes to design a smartphone app (ground we've identified as prime real estate for start-ups these days): go location-specific. Such, anyway, is the lesson TechCrunch's...
The iPhone App Store: Backlash to the Backlash
We've pretty steadily followed the conventional wisdom regarding comparisons between Apple's extremely closed iPhone app store, especially when compared to Google's promised mostly open Android app store. This is an important topic, as the app stores are wonderful start-up...
The iPhone and the Android: Vive La Difference!
It really couldn't be more stark, and couldn't have been illustrated more starkly yesterday: the difference between Apple's attitude towards the legions of software developers looking to build their own products and start-ups upon the iPhone's formidable platform, and...
Will Your App Make It To The App Store? (This Is Funny)
The Great Podcaster Rejection, in which Apple inexplicably denied what seemed like a perfectly good iPhone application the crucial entree into its Application Store, has sent shockwaves through the tech developing world (people are pissed). It also prompted a...
The Apple App Store and its Discontents
We present a cautionary tale for developers of iPhone applications--which in the past we have encouraged as savvy start-up entrepreneurs. Via the New York Times's Bits blog, there is the story of one developer, Alex Sokirynsky, whose Podcaster app...
Keep Those iPhone Apps Coming!
Skeptical about developing iPhone apps, which we've identified as a hot industry for tech start-ups? Well a bit of recent bullish news may change your mind: namely, users of Apple's 12 million extant iPhones have downloaded over 100 million...
Google To Open App Floodgates For New Phones
We wrote earlier this week about the iFund, a venture capital group looking to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's iPhone. Noting the potential for young companies that Apple is providing, we further observed that such opportunities...
The iPhone's Platform For Small Businesses
The New York Times has a report today on the so-called iFund, a $100 million venture capital project whose goal is to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's immensely popular iPhone. The idea is to invest somewhere...
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