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Good to hear! Hopefully he can help whatever other platform he chooses become legitimate competition for the iPhone.

• gcheong 17y ago
  The problem with that wish is that the iPhone was "big" before there were developers for it as there wasn't even an api initially. Developers were clamoring to develop for the iPhone because they saw how big it was going to be in the market. If all the iPhone developers today decided to go to android, it wouldn't move the android needle one bit, it would just open up a huge hole to be filled with other aspiring iPhone developers. What needs to happen is there needs to be a competing device that gains as much traction with users as the iPhone and that doesn't look like it's going to happen very soon.
  • spaghetti 17y ago
    Good points. However I think the "stay hungry stay foolish" attitude is appropriate here. Imo it will take only a few "success" stories on Android (or whatever) for the platform to catch on. Sure it seems difficult (recall the article on HN talking about dismal sales figures for a relatively highly ranked android app). But it's definitely possible. So I guess my original post was just hoping the author would be the first real success story on a non-iPhone platform.