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Grats to Jeff and Nolan. Appcelerator was once an Atlanta based company and they invited me over to hangout in their office a few times. Very nice guys and a great product; always open to chat startups.
Anyone with experience with this? Does it work well?
I just spent about five hours this weekend experimenting with Titanium Mobile and for someone like me knows Javascript, but not Objective-C or Cocoa, it looks awesome. After spending some time trying to get kick started using Objective-C, Cocoa, Interface Builder and XCode, I would guess that Titanium might reduce the time it would take me to build a substantial iPhone app by maybe 5-10X.
pekpongpaet and chadpaulson used it to win the iPhone hackathon competition at this past weekend's Day of Mobile. Chad claims he'll write a post about it, but if he doesn't, the tl;dr is that it made him a believer.
They have a ton of videos on their site but not enough info that builds credibility... how effective is their platform? how long will they be around? should I trust them to build my apps on their framework -- what if they disappear?
The platform is open source, so there's no reason it can't survive the demise of the company.