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It is more often a matter of choice of the next tier in the "supply chain", i.e. my customers' choice, not my own. I still love Apple's hardware, as well as th
by mojuba 13y ago
It is more often a matter of choice of the next tier in the "supply chain", i.e. my customers' choice, not my own.
I still love Apple's hardware, as well as their design decisions in a broad sense. Everything they do almost never disappoints in terms of novelty and coolness.
The only fundamental question in this context is, is developer lock-in part of what makes Apple Apple? I doubt so.
- ohwp 13y agoI don't think there is any developer lock-in. As you are saying it's the customers choice. When customers have more choice they can choose to go for an OS without Apple-control.
- mojuba 13y agoThere is a lock-in. We invest a lot of time in learning an ecosystem with a very specific programming language, quirks, rules, practices, problems - oh, and the AppStore approval process. On top of that, one day we suddenly discover we also depend on the availability of Apple's cert server. Customers/consumers are not locked in in this regard, and generally they don't care whether or to what extent developers are.
- clarky07 13y agoThey can, but they aren't really. Why would any consumer anywhere care if the apple dev forums are down for 2 weeks. Nobody knows, cares, or has any reason to know or care. less than 1% of people likely. Readers of HN do not account for all buyers of smartphones as it happens.