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What upsides are there to promote a competing platform as a development story for their own platform?

• joshstrange 3y ago
  It's not like anyone who wants to develop for the Vision Pro is going to get a Meta Pro and decide they don't care about the Vision Pro. Also it opens the door to people who already have Meta Pros who want to develop/port apps to the Vision Pro. If I was serious about developing for the Vision Pro I'd eat the difference between a Meta Pro now and then selling it after the Vision Pro ships.
  • dagmx 3y ago
    but what’s the upside still? They’ll have developer units available this month supposedly so availability isn’t the big barrier. It’s like saying they should enable iOS development on windows. It doesn’t make brand sense to do it. The slight upside of a few devs who won’t buy a Mac isn’t worth the deterioration of brand prestige by pushing people to multiple platforms. Also there’s a not insignificant cost associated with maintaining tooling on multiple platforms when they rely so significantly on the vertical stack
    • joshstrange 3y ago
      I guess it really depends on who gets the developer devices. I have a feeling they will be more locked down than the Arm mac developer units (which they gave to almost anyone). If they are stingy then it’d make some more sense to allow lessor hardware to be used by everyone else but I totally see you point. I forgot about the dev units since I had assumed when they were announced that it would be very hard to get one. You make a good point.
  • mensetmanusman 3y ago
    Home brew devs will certainly work with 10x cheaper hardware, compile on the mini, and ship. If you can get something working this way, it might be a good paradigm because you know it would run smooth as butter on the VP.