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My main issue with app development, as I've been saying for close to a decade now, is that with _any_ app dev, you're automatically at the whim of whoever creat
by tomphoolery 8y ago
My main issue with app development, as I've been saying for close to a decade now, is that with _any_ app dev, you're automatically at the whim of whoever created the platform. Google, Apple, or Microsoft. We say a lot of things about how Google is trying to "take over" the web, but as long as there are Firefox users, that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. No one owns the web, that's why it's still the best place for a startup.
Especially Apple. Their iOS app development team uses the App Store as a proving ground for ideas that work well, then re-implement the features most users love in a crappy/cartoon-style way and attempt to out-promote the original idea.
Examples:
Todos => Reminders,
Flipboard => News,
EasyMeasure => Measure,
Skype => FaceTime
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoI don’t disagree with the main thrust of your position, but those examples for Apple are really poor ones, imo. Except for Measure, all of those are obviously features or default apps that a platform is going to offer. The fact that Apple didn’t have a reminders app at launch and then they added one later hardly means they ripped off “Todos”, which I’ve never even heard of. And Skype isn’t primarily an iOS app at all, which makes it a poor example of the phenomenon you’re describing. Also, Apple doesn’t make any money off those apps, so I’m really, really skeptical that they’re scanning the App Store for successful apps they can rip off.