Another day, another story about the success of an iPhone App Developer. This time around Tap Tap Tap tells the story of Convert, a great app I bought on day 1. I love these stories, they are inspiring, but they are also disturbing. These stories drive thousands of people into the Gold Rush (myself included). I haven’t been a long-time member of the Mac Developer community, but I see how the influx of programmers only trying to strike rich can be strange. Do these developer plan to stay? Expand the community? Even if there is no iPhone money made? I know I’m in for the long haul.
Which leads to MonoTouch. Now available today, for a hefty price, the Mono folks have released MonoTouch to a large community of .NET developers. It is pretty amazing what they’ve done, even including Interface Builder into the process. From skimming through the hello world example, it appears there are a lot of CocoaTouch concepts required for developing in Objective-C. One side of me (The .NET developer side) is highly excited. The other side (the one that has spent a lot of time learning Cocoa) is apathetic. Why use this now? I guess I’m not the exact target of it. Still, I do wonder how much of an overhead there is in using MonoTouch.