Whether you are listed on the App store or Handango, promoting your product always consumes time and money.
The capital requirements for the iPhone are higher. $79-99 to be exact. Unless you need access to system or Crypto APIs ($20 for a key), developing for the Blackberry costs nothing.
Incidentally, I am a programmer sitting at home (in my spare time) and I look at my iPhone and because of Jobs' retarded politics I think "I can't do that". Then I look at the BB JDE/Simulator and get back to work using a decent API to write what'll hopefully be a neat little app.
They're not higher, they're lower. Developing might be free, but replicating the advantages of the App Store will cost you money. How much? I don't know, but I know getting your app in front of that many customers in the way Apple does and making it that easy to buy is going to cost a lot more than $99. I was coming from an entrepreneurial perspective; building a business on the iPhone platform just seems easier.
The capital requirements for the iPhone are higher. $79-99 to be exact. Unless you need access to system or Crypto APIs ($20 for a key), developing for the Blackberry costs nothing.
Incidentally, I am a programmer sitting at home (in my spare time) and I look at my iPhone and because of Jobs' retarded politics I think "I can't do that". Then I look at the BB JDE/Simulator and get back to work using a decent API to write what'll hopefully be a neat little app.