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Author misses one important point - Apple doesn't need the goodwill now with a big winner on its hands, but it might need the goodwill later if they're in a com
by lionhearted 17y ago
Author misses one important point - Apple doesn't need the goodwill now with a big winner on its hands, but it might need the goodwill later if they're in a competitive race in a new market. And all things being equal, I think developers would choose "the other side" if the quality/market size was close.
These sorts of short term capricious mandates don't always come back to bite a major player, but sometimes they do. It might bite Apple later, or might not. That article was a really fun read though, I do like his style and tone.
- donaq 17y agoNot only that, he has a point: it might be fun to have an evil empire for hackers to rally against once more. ;-)
- scotty79 17y agoI think that author claims that Apple will always be one step ahead of the competition even without paying attention to what developers think and do and that's because Apple gathered a lot of money and they can put it into designing new gizmo and marketing it furiously so the user-base builds up and developers will follow because they are money-whores.