Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
by elygre on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:59PM
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Developers will support multiple markets, the same way that car companies deliver cars with the steering wheel on the wrong (i.e. right) side of the car for those comparably small markets.
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Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
by melling on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:11PM
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I guess I wasn’t clear on this point.
“At some point, they’ll stop supporting the shrinking market.”
If the market is profitable, they’ll support it. However, as the Macintosh market shrank in the 1990s, for example, some developers fled.
Also, great iPhone only apps will try to capture part of the larger Android market. As more revenue comes from Android, that’ll be their primary market.
Read this story about Steve Jobs and Adobe. It might give you a better idea about what I’m trying to convey:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-w...