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Re:JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development by nawitus on Thursday December 26, 2013 @10:11AM (#6966459)
>If your app is too easy to write it will be cloned and you won't make money from it anyway.

That's a bit oversimplification. First of all, writing in JavaScript doesn't make the app easier to clone, the programming language has very little effect on the easiness of cloning. Secondly, even if an application can be re-implemented quickly, doesn't mean one cannot make money from it. Twitter can be implemented in a single weekend, but that doesn't mean the Twitter-clone will be profitable.

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Re:JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development by adamnemecek on Thursday December 26, 2013 @10:57AM (#6966602)
"...but that doesn't mean the Twitter-clone will be profitable."

Especially considering that Twitter isn't either :-).

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Re:JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development by al2o3cr on Thursday December 26, 2013 @01:14PM (#6967190)
"First of all, writing in JavaScript doesn't make the app easier to clone"

Yep, shipping the source code for your entire application IN the application doesn't make it any easier to clone. Somebody better tell that to the Phonegap users who are dealing with knockoffs:

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/17/ripoff-apps-plague-some-ios-d...

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Re:JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development by nawitus on Thursday December 26, 2013 @04:20PM (#6968106)
I was talking about legal clones.
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