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It comes down to simple economics: 1. Support web standards allowing developers to build cross-platform apps in which you [Apple] profit little from. -- or --
by judah 11y ago
It comes down to simple economics:
1. Support web standards allowing developers to build cross-platform apps in which you [Apple] profit little from.
-- or --
2. Lag behind web standards so that developers build iOS-specific apps, increasing the value of iOS and taking a 30% cut of profits of those apps.
It's in the company's best monetary interest to support #2, so that's exactly what they're doing, and WebRTC is not the first time. (They're still lagging behind on HTML5 audio, for example.)
These market forces are the same ones that caused Microsoft be the evil Microsoft of the 1990s: they have a financial interest in lagging behind web standards.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoThe flaw in what you're saying is that lagging behind web standards does not increase the value of iOS. It may be in Apple's short term best monetary interest, but I'm more skeptical that it is in their long term best interest. There's a reason why so many people hated Microsoft back in the 1990s, and it led many people to get away from Microsoft wherever possible. Apple doesn't want to end up there...
- romanovcode 11y agoWhich is ironic because Apple is ending up on exactly the same road MS took in 90's.