The 360iDev conference was really great. I met so many talented individuals who were so willing to give of their time. The sessions were really good and many a time I had a hard time choosing between two sessions that were on at the same time. For the most part I did the business track as I have many years of development experience and wanted to improve on my marketing skills. Along with ways on how to market and track your your apps it was also great to hear about the trends in iPhone development. The sessions on using Cocos2D and Open Feint were great. You can get a simple app up and running without too much development time and have some excellent functionality. Just to prove it, some of the games developed during the gamejam were built on these two technologies. Despite all the focus on games the trend is towards more serious business apps. Can the iPhone be the one platform for all users. I doubt it. The iPhone is not a serious business phone. It takes me way longer to find contacts on my iPhone compared to Palm Treo.
Time to get back to work to implement all the great ideas I now have.
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