Tonights roundtable show involved Tanesha, Song, Gwen and myself (Mario). I promised listeners that I would update the website with some of the information that was shared specifically information pertaining to opportunities for software developers. I've blogged and talked about the iPhone opportunity before but tonight I feel the window of opportunity is going to close and I want to make sure as many people participate as possible. 

 We are dealing with an unprecedented opportunity to develop applications that would run on the iPhone platform. If you are a developer, software engineer or savvy business person that may have a great idea for a program that should be available on iPhones NOW IS THE TIME. Not tomorrow, not next week NOW!

Here's the deal, Apple is allowing developers to download the SDK (software developer kit) this kit provides the information developers need to know about the infrastructure and necessary criteria. Then you get to set the price your willing to charge for your application and you get to keep 70cents of the fee. Apple will offer the application in their iPhone Apps store.

Let's run through a quick example of the potential. Apple is on track to sell 10 mill iPhones, you develop an app that 4% of that audience decides to download = (that would be about 400,000 downloads) take the 400,000 downloads x $.70 (revenue you receive from Apple per download) = $280,000 (and that’s only 1 application you've created, imagine if you had more than 1 app?)

What are you waiting for?

Other relevant information:

The Apple developer program website:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Mario Blog with more info:
http://marioa.squarespace.com/blog/2008/3/7/100-million-apple-iphone-sdk-and-austin-powers-team-up-to-ru.html

 Apple's press release:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/03/06iphone.html