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> They make great products for my parents, but they are increasingly hostile toward developers and tech savvy users. This is the opposite of a backhanded compl
by mushufasa 6y ago
> They make great products for my parents, but they are increasingly hostile toward developers and tech savvy users.
This is the opposite of a backhanded complement. The market for your parents is orders of magnitudes greater than the market for developers and technologists.
- cnst 6y agoAs a tech-savvy user, I may be asked which device I recommend. If I write OS-agnostic mobile apps for fun, and my apps can be downloaded for Android easily, but cannot be downloaded for iOS, guess which device I'll be recommending to my "parents", friends and internet strangers?
- layoric 6y agoThat way of thinking assumes that the people you are giving recommendations to care most about your app’s availability rather than the persons own preferences and motivations. If your audience is non tech savvy (group defined by not being a specific group, eg much broader), good chance they have a broad set of preferences unrelated to your free app availability. This point above is more of a “save your breath” suggestion as tech savvy people would much more likely be interested in this trade off when considering a which device type to purchase.