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The 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
by Zak 17y ago
The 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)