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Great... yet more attention on iOS

• robotresearcher 5mo ago
  Roughly 1.75 billion to 250 million installed OSes, according to public estimates. 7 to 1 ratio.
  • fchicken 5mo ago
    The numbers don't tell the full story. The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.
    • robotresearcher 5mo ago
      How does that matter to where the attention is paid today?
      • fchicken 5mo ago
        Everything (or 90%) on the iphone was taken from the mac and put into the iPhone. The software dvelopment for the PC environment, then stripped down and streamlined for the phone is why the iPhone was the revolution that it was. Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development". That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development. That is the reason why.
        • robotresearcher 5mo ago
          > Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. Wow.
          • fchicken 5mo ago
            Don't "Wow." out of context. The smart move is further development of the Mac to explore ways to bring new features to the iPhone or future apple devices. To simply go "this = profit = all development goes there" personifies a lack of wisdom.