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I haven't read the article, and I love my Android phone, but I sincerely hope Android never approaches 100%. Monoculture is never a good thing.

• amelius 11y ago
  True, except that as a developer I'd prefer to target only one architecture. Now we're forced to write apps for iOS and Android and the web separately.
  • dkopi 11y ago
    Interestingly, you consider "the web" a single target, and not "Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, IE" on "Linux, Windows, MacOS, IOS, Android" And we consider android a single target, and not "Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony..." We don't need android hegemony for easier development. We need cross platform development tools.
  • hellofunk 11y ago
    I don't think that will ever change but toolkits that let you target more than one platform will continue to improve (like Qt).
  • spriggan3 11y ago
    > True, except that as a developer I'd prefer to target only one architecture. Now we're forced to write apps for iOS and Android and the web separately. How is it a bad thing ? more work == more money for you as a developer.
    • adrianN 11y ago
      Some people like to do interesting work instead of doing basically the same thing over and over again.
    • dkopi 11y ago
      More work == more developers needed to get the same job done == less productivity == lower wages.