Future plans

I thought it useful to post up a list of my future plans for over the next few years.

iPhone App Store

• I will be posting updates as soon as I can get them coded and uploaded to iPhone Connect for customers.
• With each app and update I’ll be learning more and more of Objective-C, Xcode and iPhone development so that should help me in the long run produce more professional and better developed apps for release.
• The pricing for apps are going to differ from free to an amount I feel worthy of the time put into the app.
• I will be learning throughout the year and for a number of years, as long as I can go for producing apps on my own, as a team, or part of a company.
• Money from the first apps is going towards a new iMac where I will developing more applications and giving me a better and quicker machine to develop my apps on.

Mac OS X

• You may have briefly seen in an older post, but I will be making a few apps for Mac in the future once the iPhone development has properly kicked off. I will be posting updates on this later on this year, probably after June 09 you will hear any bulk of news about this.
• It’s too early to say at the moment, but I have plans to develop a program for the Mac which will coincide with an app on the iPhone, bring users together in one place… online.

Windows

• Although it may not seem it, but I will be creating a number of highly developed Windows programs in languages such as Java, C++, C# or whichever suits the purpose best.
• Development of these programs probably will not start till late 2010 due to a busy couple of years for me.
• I will be doing a course on Computer Science at university to further my study into programming which will be based on Windows and will help me develop better programs for the Microsoft user base out there.

Another Mobile OS or Platform?

• Android?
• I may start learning and developing for the Android OS once it picks up, however I’d have to save up for a development device.
• But who knows?! I will keep you all posted when news becomes available on my behalf.

Google Android Software Launch

Google Android – An open source OS for mobile phones.

Google has launched it’s new open source operating system for mobile phones. It’s first phone to use this OS? T-Mobile HTC. (Named G1). This phone will be going on sale in October!

The OS is open for any developers to create applications for and the OS itself can be tailored for individual phones, networks and potentially user. Thirty four companies, including Google, have formed an alliance to promote Android and to develop features and handsets to take advantage of the platform. These companies include handset manufacturers such as LG HTC, Motorola and Samsung, chip firms such as Qualcomm and mobile networks like T-Mobile and China Mobile.

Google have made a Market for downloading applications, just like Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. However, unlike Apple, Google’s market will not require approval for applications.