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Well, Apple has one platform that is winning (for some definition of "winning") in a market that will be the focus of the coming decade(s), and another platform

by tvon 17y ago

Well, Apple has one platform that is winning (for some definition of "winning") in a market that will be the focus of the coming decade(s), and another platform that lost long ago (even if it's currently growing) in the market of the past two decades. I'd think it irresponsible of them not to focus their efforts on the iPhone OS. Also note that the only development platform for those Apps is the Mac.

chc 17y ago
Mac is a minority platform. iPhone OS is a minority platform. Both are tremendously successful for Apple and growing consistently. To say the iPhone is a winner and the Mac is a loser is cherry-picking your criteria pretty carefully. Yes, the iPhone is bigger in its market and didn't have an unfortunate stretch of history under Gil Amelio, but both seem to be doing extremely well these days.