Peter, You are right on target with your comments regarding small developers/consultants. They are the ones getting squeezed out by the shake up that Apple has started. I am one of those.
What my post points to, more than anything, is a glimpse of a new landscape for app development. My post addresses the Apple scenario exclusively, but I also have the other two major mobile platforms clearly in mind: Android and WebOS. I believe these non-Apple platforms will also migrate to new, larger mobile devices that will edge out laptops and even desktops as we know them today. So, like all good hunters, I aim my arrow ahead of the game, not at it and certainly not behind it. Apple is just my first target. I doubt it will be my last. As I said in the post referenced by this thread, times like this represent huge opportunity for small creative teams. I am not interested in philosophizing about this, however. I am a tool maker with a concrete plan of action. Our Feature Friday post tomorrow at 10AM CDT/US (13:00 GMT) will have the details. Best, Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch On May 6, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Peter Alcibiades <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
