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In the case that this is true, this would be far and away Apple's biggest-ever sacrificial move against the Mac for the sake of iPhone OS. Ending OS X's exclusi
by mortenjorck 16y ago
In the case that this is true, this would be far and away Apple's biggest-ever sacrificial move against the Mac for the sake of iPhone OS. Ending OS X's exclusivity as the dev kit for iPhone OS would send an extraordinarily profound signal about the company's priorities.
- Tamerlin 16y agoDropping the "computer" part from the name was probably a bit of foreshadowing...
- raganwald 16y agoQuestion: How many Macs do you think they have sold to developers who (a) wanted to build an iPhone application but (b) didn't already own a Mac? That's the market they are 'sacrificing'. I doubt it's significant. update: Apple reports that they sold 3.05 million Macintosh® computers in Q42009 alone. I can't see them giving a damn about selling Macs to iPhone developers.