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> That's great for the developer community. Unfortunately, the developer community is a small minority of people I think you underestimate the amount of influe

> That's great for the developer community. Unfortunately, the developer community is a small minority of people I think you underestimate the amount of influence developers have on the rest of the population. If you get developers to love you by making their jobs that much easier, they will go out of their way to promote your product and get other people to start using it. It's in their profit-minded interests to see to it that your product succeeds, because if it doesn't, then they have to bear the costs of doing things the old way. The quality of the product matters, too, and we'll have to see if this will be a high-quality product. But there's something to be said about getting developers on your side.

amirmc 15y ago
I understand your point but I don't think it's as influential as you make out. First, you're assuming that developers have (sufficient) influence over swathes of non-developers. I'm not sure that's true, especially in the case of hardware. Second, it's in developers' "profit-minded interest" to get their stuff on every relevant platform. It's where the customers are that matters. Finally, no matter how good the product is, I doubt any technically capable folks (not just devs) want to end up as the de-facto 'tech-support guy' for all the people they convinced to sign-up.