Loren Brichter reminds us of the real synergy of the iPhone platform that many, many other app stores completely forget (or choose to be silent about):
It’s been a long process, but it will be worth it. Once I sync the codebase for Tweetie for Mac and Tweetie for iPhone, expect an explosion in functionality. I will be able to explore new features in Tweetie for Mac, pushing out updates there instantly, and once I’m confident that changes are stable, push updates to the iPhone.
I can’t imagine running Symbian, WinMo, Palm WebOS, or Blackberry code on a full desktop machine. Well, I could, but it’d give me nightmares.