I was pondering about application development for smart phone, ex. iPhone, or Android for a while. It's almost certain that the smart phone will eventually replace every feature phone, when 3G prevails and data plan becomes cheaper. It's like the 1980s and 1990s, the pre-boom era of PC market. Mobile computing is finally here knocking our doors. Both the hardware, software, and infrastructure are ready for the big boom era to come.
There should be a lot of opportunities in this mobile computing era. For individual or small software company, to develop phone apps for other companies maybe a good way of making money.
For example, you can make an e-menu application for a restaurant. The multimedia menu application will be definitely better than traditional menu in the restaurant. You may sell the application to the restaurant for a one time fee, such like 3~5k. Or you may have a better strategy, to sell the app for only 3~5 hundred at first and charge the restaurant for $1 for every order coming through your app later on. Of course, your app should be able to make order and track the order.
For smaller business, the later pricing strategy may be appealing, as there isn't much upfront cost for them and they may be willing to pay commission later for orders. You may also develop websites for those restaurants will no current websites. This business model may be applied to other industries like entertainment, or ticketing business.
So, for this business model, it may be appealing to individual developers and small business market. That's a perfect match.
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