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Where do developers draw the line with Apple?
- iamdave 17y agoThis statement sums up at least 70% of the success the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will see: >Apple philosophically believes that by delivering a closed system [to the customer] they can deliver a better consumer product. Brackets added for context, as he was referring to delivering that experience to customers. That's when it hits me. My contention with Apple as of late because of the way they parade their control of these markets with revolutionary phones and revolutionary tablet computers isn't with Apple at all. It's with the ordinary consumer. We're all aware that consumers outnumber developers at least 3:1, and if they clamor for products, they get those products because they're affecting the bottom line. Developers, are inherently the casualty to a hyper-consumerist marketplace. There was a time when the iPhone first came out that I would mock it as a "Playschool phone for idiots with huge buttons telling you what to do". It seems that's exactly the case; in Apple's attempt to define to the customer, what the customer needed best, they got tunnel-sighted and everybody else paid the price. Except, of course, for those customers who keep consuming apps regardless of how useful it actually is. Paradoxically, sometimes developers turn into consumers, and consumers turn into developers. It's nasty.