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A big issue when you’re the platform is not competing with the developers who write apps for said platform. If MS included a lot of great apps as stock, it woul
by orev 8y ago
A big issue when you’re the platform is not competing with the developers who write apps for said platform. If MS included a lot of great apps as stock, it would impact a lot of vendors. Just look at how much the anti-virus vendors complained about Windows Defender and the removal of APIs those tools used.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoSo here's a question: why shouldn't a platform just be a platform?
- toyg 8y agoBecause consumers don’t care what a platform is, they want a usable computing device. People are thoroughly frustrated by having to hunt for programs to do stuff that, to them, is an obvious necessity that should have been easy to do from the very start. System utilities like notepad are a compromise between “giving users what they want” and “not burning too many bridges or attracting antitrust lawsuits”.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago> Because consumers don’t care what a platform is Just once I'd like to have a discussion where someone doesn't drag out the strawman "average user" bullshit.
- scarface74 8y agoEvery platform vendor who knows what they are doing has a certain set of priorities and they are: 1. The company 2. The customer . . . . . 3. Third party developers
- toyg 8y agoYou forgot "the government", which is really #3. Developers usually sit somewhere between "astronauts" and "things that from distance look like flies".
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoWhich is why Microsoft Windows, the most targeted platform in the world for decades, never bothered to give a damn about developers.
- toyg 8y agoI didn’t say that. But if you think MS will ever put developers’ needs before its own, the customers’ or the government’s, you are sorely deluded. They give a damn about developers only inasmuch as it helps their bottom line, like everyone else out there.
- belltaco 8y agoHow is that a strawman? You never interact with non-techies that use computers? Those customers are the vast vast majority of the Windows userbase by far.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoBecause it is always trotted out with the implication that the user is precisely as stupid or uninterested as the poster needs them to be in order to make their case.