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I don't think the question why we develop for Android is relevant here. The fact that the two most important smartphone platforms are walled gardens is interest
by thijser 12y ago
I don't think the question why we develop for Android is relevant here.
The fact that the two most important smartphone platforms are walled gardens is interesting in itself. (Google has for long claimed that Android is more open than iOS, but with the current state of things where not being published on Google Play means your app doesn't exist, this claim is not really valid anymore).
- duncan_bayne 12y agoOkay, perhaps a more general question then, for people who develop for walled gardens of all types: how can you justify the investment, when your app might be cut off at the knees tomorrow?
- thijser 12y agoI would rather ask the opposite question: Is it possible to develop a fast growing mobile service without developing an app on iOS/Android? How could Instagram have grown the way it did without their iOS and Android apps? I'm sure people occasionally post copyrighted content as a picture on Instagram, were they just lucky not to get pulled by Google for copyright infringement?
- jliptzin 12y agoI could also find a ton of nudity on Instagram right now if I wanted to.
- duncan_bayne 12y agoThey're not opposite, they're related. Put another way: you have $X to invest. Why would you invest in a mobile service that requires a native app, when the only viable 'markets' for same are walled gardens with arbitrary rules? Courts exist in capitalist societies to provide the rule of law, and thus the stability, required for investment. There is no such thing in the Android or iOS world.