It is an interesting and thought provoking posting, agreed. It makes the case that there is a large opportunity from getting firmly inside the Apple camp, and a lot of people agree with this. And it suggests that this is increasingly going to be a decision not about mobile, with the Apple desktop remaining as is. It suggests that the model is going to spread to the Apple desktop in the near future, and this seems plausible.
The more walled this Apple camp becomes, and the more it includes all Apple platforms, the more of a binary decision it becomes. The harder it becomes for a small business to be in that camp and in the other two (Linux and Windows), because the less economies of scale there are from being in all of them together. The effect is that you don't get to leverage your investment in Apple in other markets. Which probably makes sense to Apple, and it may then make sense to the smaller business to just give up the other markets and get into the Apple camp. Consider it from the point of view of someone not in the Apple camp, having no intention of going anywhere near it. Some of us left that country years ago and are never going back. We don't use Apple stuff, we don't write for it. For good or bad reasons, one can argue, but that's the way it is. So where, if Jerry is right, does that leave us, if Rev decides to bite the bullet and move in? Probably out in the cold. Its hard to believe there will be enough resources to do all platforms. Its also hard to believe that Apple really wants there to be a genuine cross platform product, and Apple can dictate exactly what you can develop for it on, any of it, in the medium term. So Rev may find itself faced with an awkward choice: dump Linux, or dump Apple. Jerry's argument is, by implication, the rewards are with Apple. Maybe so, intelligent people can argue both sides of the costs benefits and likelihoods. What seems certain is that if this is the choice, we Linux users of Rev are going to get squeezed out. And this is not a trivial tradeoff as it was a year or so ago, because now its also we developers for Android who will get squeezed out as well. Now that is a real tradeoff and it gets to be bet the company time. Not just for Rev, for the small developers too. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Great-post-on-Jerry-Daniels-Blog-tp2131590p2132685.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
