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Apple is not that important. Seriously. Even with a mere 10% market share, Apple is so incredibly important. Since 2000, they have continually set the standar
by boucher 18y ago
Apple is not that important. Seriously.
Even with a mere 10% market share, Apple is so incredibly important. Since 2000, they have continually set the standard in industrial design across the electronics industry (and even beyond it). Beyond that, they've also completely changed the music industry. They went from zero music presence to 80% market share in music players, and the number one music store (not just online music store). The iPhone is already redefining the cell phone industry.
Sure, they may be small, and maybe they'll never get bigger, but you can't for a second claim they aren't important.
- manvsmachine 18y agoTrue, but as SwellJoe said, they are not that important, particularly in the space in which this topic resides. Their contributions regarding UI and design have definitely been impressive, but we're talking about dev tools here. The mass adoption of iPods and MacBooks hasn't yet resulted in an equivalent increase in Objective-C, and I would think that it would do so even less with web technologies.
- jshen 18y agoHow many Objective-C books were on the shelf at barnes and noble before apple used it? Now there is always one or two and I expect that to grow with iphone uptake.
- SwellJoe 18y agoTwo whole books? Why, that's as much as .1 times the number of Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, or even Lisp books on the shelf at your average bookstore! Get ready world, here comes the Apple development juggernaut! My comment was merely to point out the silliness of hyperbole. I'm not picking on Apple, or its fanboys. You like Apple products, and development tools that emulate Apple products, and that's wonderful for you. But, it doesn't alter the fact that Apple has historically had little to no impact on the web development world (web design, they've had a huge impact on...actual code, not so much).