>top of the line application development framework
Was this really a big seller of the first iPhones? The ones that came out a year before Apple started allowing native apps? Because before that it was just Javascript and HTML5, similar to WebOS.
>By mid-2008 when the app store launched Apple had only sold about 5 million phones. Since then they've sold over 200 million.
The point is that without the blessing of the metaphorical us, Apple wouldn't have sold 5 million in one year in 2007, and they surely would not have kept selling in even greater numbers. There are many systems just as good or better that have failed because they didn't capture developer mindshare.
>The iPhone was successful because... developers flocked to it
I'm speaking in generalities, and not just specific to phones. The whole point of my post was that being the best isn't enough, a product also needs great marketing and approval from the technical community. What was just as good or better means nothing now, because hindsight can come up with any number of reasons why the status quo was better than the change required for Product X to take over.
Was this really a big seller of the first iPhones? The ones that came out a year before Apple started allowing native apps? Because before that it was just Javascript and HTML5, similar to WebOS.
>By mid-2008 when the app store launched Apple had only sold about 5 million phones. Since then they've sold over 200 million.
The point is that without the blessing of the metaphorical us, Apple wouldn't have sold 5 million in one year in 2007, and they surely would not have kept selling in even greater numbers. There are many systems just as good or better that have failed because they didn't capture developer mindshare.
>The iPhone was successful because... developers flocked to it
Glad to see we agree.