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Posted by: ArmourElite
If I could do code I'd spend every second of every day trying to get an app into the Apple store.
I think that's both more complicated and less important than you might think.
It's more complicated because even iPhone games require skills other than programming: Art, music, story (presumably), and gameplay all need to be created as well, and some talented programmers might not be able to pull those things off with any real skill. So it would require a team. That's doable though. You could decide not to do a game, which would be fine in your portfolio, but creating something that isn't a copycat could be hard -- there are hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into startups who do nothing other than iOS apps. The other problem I see is that getting an app into the market can take months... something worth working for, but not something you'd want to count on to get a job. (You could, again, just make something for your portfolio though.)
It's less important, I'd guess, because writing an app in objective C isn't necessarily the same as writing a console/PC program in C/C++/whatever.
I'm sure writing an iPhone app could only be good for you, but I think there's more to it than that and I would certainly be interested in hearing what else employers would be looking for.
Edited for typos and to add: Not everyone has all day to work on side projects. Knowing what to spend time and effort on would also probably be of help to more people than just me.
[Edited on 09.29.2011 2:50 PM PDT]