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$25 for an iPhone app

The future is evenly distributed. Today, it will cost you $25 from iSites to have your blog/RSS configured and submitted to Apple for its App Store (soon, Android).

A couple years from now, probably they'll charge a nominal fee, like a $1.00, to stop the flood of unnecessary submissions, then quickly realize that's pointless and unnecessary and impossible and just make it free.

Before then, they'll probably make it so such blogs, sites and other tools only appear when you are at a location that makes the data more critical -- like a car blog when you're at a dealership, a foodie blog that pops up just before lunch time (on payday). That sort of thing.