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I watch this and I can't help thinking, "Apple has won".

• wvenable 11y ago
  Exactly. They won a few years ago. At first Microsoft tried to copy exactly what Apple was doing and that didn't work. Now they're at least trying to compete with Apple in a way that leverages their advantages.
• alyx 11y ago
  You don't need to watch this video to know that Apple has won. But what do you expect, everybody to pack up and go home? I'm glad they are trying something/everything in order to bootstrap Windows. Innovation happens when people are competing and fighting for the user's attention. Not when they are rolling in cash with no desire to do anything new.
• kevingadd 11y ago
  I think the reality is even more interesting than that: Apple has won, but MS is in the position of being able to do whatever they want, so they can chase after any developer audience they're looking to capture. Thus, they're adding clang integration, and an objective c runtime, and a way to run 'universal' windows 10 apps on xbox one, a rearchitected browser with modern js (asm.js!) and modern platform features (webgl!) etc etc etc. They just want devs to put their applications on Microsoft platforms, they're letting go of the desire to control every part of the platform & developer experience. Compare this with how Apple has been aggressively pruning and scoping down their dev tooling, it's a pretty interesting contrast. They insist on controlling everything from beginning to end, which results in problems like not being able to build executables that support older versions of OSX with the official toolchain.