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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by dannyr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:56PM (#2015235)
"Besides, as Apple proves every day, developers can hate your guts but still jump on cue if the platform is good enough."

It's not about being good. If it is, developers would be all over the WebOS platform. It's because the App Store still generates the most revenue for most developers.

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Re:Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With D... by chrisaycock on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:25AM (#2015441)
Right, it's the distribution. Desktop developers have been willing to shell-out a lot for Visual Studio because they needed to build Windows applications for wide adoption.
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