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iPad is much bigger than Mac ever was and it's had great developer support.

• arrrg 12y ago
  Well, I think it’s more complicated than that. What I do enjoy about the Mac are these small indie devs, selling their software at relatively high prices (read: $50 instead of $3). The Mac doesn’t have all the software, but it has some really cool, high-quality software that shares my values when it comes to design and UI. The App Store (to some extent even the App Store on the Mac) was never really like that and always a more toxic place with cutthroat pricing. You can’t sell $50 software on the iPad (even $10 software is hard to sell), so the situation is just a different one on that device. I mean, devs are frustrated with their inability to make money on the iPhone by just charging for software – and that device is way, way, way bigger than the Mac ever was. Selling software on iOS has its own quirks that makes it different from the Mac. That said, it has always been harder to find devs that share my values on iOS, so maybe that's a general problem of the platform (maybe it’s just a problem with discoverability and there are in fact more devs that share my values on iOS than on the Mac!) and has not a lot to do with how well these devices sell.
  • eropple 12y ago
    You can sell $50 software on the iPad if you've got a real need. Lemur was $50 when I bought it, though it's $25 now.