Appleville, North Carolina: A Better Place [for iPhone Push Apps] to Be
Posted on July 7, 2009
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I might be going out on a limb here, but I’m going to make a bold prediction about Apple’s plans for its pending North Carolina computing facility. With the growing popularity of the iPhone and the 3.0 OS offering push capabilities, developers have plenty of reason to write apps. The only catch is, as an indie developer, why would I integrate push into my app if I have to host some service on my lonesome until hell freezes over? Here enters Apple.
If Apple offered a solid online platform that supported the service-side of iPhone apps with a friendly framework, they’d solve the problem entirely. Services like Amazon’s A3 charge a price (albeit a small sum) since they aren’t making any money on the end product. Apple comes at it from a different perspective.
Every app that’s added to the store builds an even more compelling argument for buying an iPhone over an Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, or Palm device. With Apple selling well over a billion apps so far and tens of millions of iPhone OS devices, they could even host the services of paid-for applications for free. If the app’s a success, Apple makes money. If the app’s a flop, the service won’t burn any cycles and would cost nearly nothing to host in the end.
Anybody have any other ideas?
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A very thin limb, indeed. They aren’t building a 500,000 square foot data center to support push notifications. Something big, and I mean capital B-I-G is coming. I have no idea what though.