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Being in the forefront of receiving ideas for iPhone applications and reviewing all the project that Atimi might take on, there is a real opportunity that is obvious but not being exploited by enough publishers and IP owners right now. That opportunity is to start an application now, that will be in the app store by mid-December.

Why? On Christmas morning there certainly will be many iPhones under the tree, but more to the point even more iTunes gift certificates in stockings, as gifts, and given as the default "I don't know what they want" card.

In attending CTIA in Sf this week, 2 things became totally clear. Firstly, CTIA only needs to be once a year, and this second CTIA should be replaced with an industry summit without the trade show booths as the show-floor was weak an no one was discussing anything they saw on the floor. What is really needed is more meeting space to talk.

I’ve been reading the stats regularly, waiting for the Mac to reach 10% of the PC market. Apple now has 8% of US Market share. And Microsoft is now recognizing that fact.
In their 2008 10-K submission to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft recognizes Apple as a competitor:

Casual Connect Seattle is over for the year, and was really worthwhile going to. For those that have never been, Casual Connect has something that many conferences of this type lack, which is sense of openness to helping and discussion. Conversations happened everywhere at the show - in the halls, outside and in every corner of the many networking events. The show attracts a real mix of people from single engineer companies to the big mobile brands, carriers and development teams.

Early this morning an electrical fire due to an explosion in a vault a couple blocks away from the Atimi office in Vancouver had us lose power for all of today with no real resolution from the fire department as of yet.

This outage is affecting everyone in our vicinity, including hosting companies such as Peer 1 who's redundant power also appears to have failed.

In the midst of releasing the iPhone applications we have been working on, and fielding the calls for new apps I have started preparing for the upcoming Casual Connect conference in Seattle in a little over a week. As the premiere conference for the casual gaming market, I am really looking forward to meeting everyone that has been on this ride the last weeks, and to talk to everyone attending about what it's like to develop these games and applications.

Atimi's President, Steven Gully recently did an interview for the National Post about the iPhone 3G, the Apple App store and the rise in the Mac market.

You can read the entire article here.

Rogers has finally posted their rates for voice/data plans for the iPhone. They’re not great, but they’re an improvement on the rates for previous plans. If you check the fine print, you’ll find that you don’t have to give up your existing Rogers voice plan—you can just add data.

My only contention is that you have to sign a three-year contract to buy an iPhone. You don’t have to for a BlackBerry? Or any other smartphone.

A couple of us from Atimi stopped by Vancouver’s new Apple Store in Pacific Centre on the way back from lunch the other day. Looking around at the cool hardware and accessories was like jumping into a time machine.  There are so many new products to check out and you’re actually allowed to pick them up and use them, without assistance or supervision. We were like a bunch of kids in a candy store.

I was quite impressed with my first MacWorld. From a trade show perspective, it was well organized. The keynote with Steve Jobs was great, you can taste the excitement in the air. As he knocked off each accomplishment everyone was nodding their head in delight, especially with the iPhone stats. Wow, really? 4m units in 200 days or 20,000 a day! These figures boggle the mind. Way to stick it to the nay-sayers Steve. The video rental with Apple TV was cool but the response was mild.