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Maybe it's too early and I need my coffee, but I can't tell where you differ from the author. He also says the success of the iPhone had little to do with dev
by pohl 17y ago
Maybe it's too early and I need my coffee, but I can't tell where you differ from the author. He also says the success of the iPhone had little to do with developers. ("Developers never had anything to do with it." is his closing line.) What you call "wow-factor" translates to the author's "awesomeness".
- Zak 17y agoThe last paragraph of the article is Microsoft won on the desktop by being developer-friendly and Apple won in mobile by being developer-hostile. Quite a bit of the rest of the article doesn't seem to support that conclusion, but that does appear to be the conclusion of his article. I'm saying that Microsoft being developer-friendly has little to do with them winning on the desktop instead of Apple. Incidentally, on the desktop Apple is now making good products and being developer-friendly. They don't have a huge market share, but I recently read that they're getting 20% of the global profits from PC sales.
- pohl 17y agoI see where you're coming from now, thank you. FWIW, the sentence that followed made me interpret it more like this: Microsoft won on the desktop [while] being developer-friendly and Apple won in mobile [while] being developer-hostile. (I didn't think the author meant to imply causality)