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Most of the people outside the US cannot afford an iOS device, so my guess is that missing Android there would be something else (Blackberry ? Windows Mobile ?
by mrighele 6y ago
Most of the people outside the US cannot afford an iOS device, so my guess is that missing Android there would be something else (Blackberry ? Windows Mobile ? who knows how it would have gone)
- kristopolous 6y agohonestly with the rise of the web-app based phone app platforms (react/ionic etc) becoming almost "standard" the friction for porting to a hypothetical third platform goes down substantially. Ignoring the branding law of duality (that generally only 2 brands occupy the supermajority of a product category) and looking only at technical barriers, now looks to be better than ever for a third platform to possibly arise - especially given the rise of ARM SoCs.
- hrktb 6y ago> web-app based phone app platforms (react/ionic etc) Those are cost cutting choices that don’t automatically lead to porting to other platforms. Small players will still churn a single app for iOS based on their site’s react code, for instance. Basically those who didn’t care for other platforms before still don’t care that much, but instead of being their 1298th priority in the list, it might have rosen to the 34th or 35th position.