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Compared to multi-platform development for OS X, iOS, Android, Symbian, WinMo 6, WinMo 7, Windows 7, Windows 8, Blackberry, Samsung Bada, Linux ; it's

by aerique 15y ago

Compared to multi-platform development for OS X, iOS, Android, Symbian, WinMo 6, WinMo 7, Windows 7, Windows 8, Blackberry, Samsung Bada, Linux ; it's heaven like. You make this sound much worse than it actually is. iOS is where the money is and Android is up and coming. All the others can be either ignored and served with a (funnily enough) web site. Then there are libraries / frameworks that abstract all these platforms away or allow you to use a language that you're experienced in: MonoTouch, PhoneGap, Unity, etc. Now, libraries don't fix all the problems and sometimes you will have to deal with the platform but they do take care of a whole lot.

zerostar07 15y ago
As a long-term investment, it's a bad choice though. I still make money from web apps built in 2007, and there's a pretty good chance i 'll keep making it with incremental changes in the following years. I doubt i 'd say the same if i'd started with phone apps in the pre-iphone era.