Will Post-PC battles lead to a war of attrition for developers?
I am firm believer that he who wins the hearts and minds of developers wins the platform game.
Case in point, in today's mobile/Post-PC universe, we see clearly how major companies like Microsoft, HP, Dell, RIM and Nokia are struggling to remain relevant in the face of developer apathy.
Meanwhile, Apple and Google have left the competition in the dust by virtue of their tremendous success in courting application developers.
But, there is a "pink elephant" in the room that no one is really discussing, and it gets to the nut of what investing time and energy in a software platform is all about.
Read the full piece HERE.
UPDATE: Interesting article in today's AllThingsD, where Android co-founder Rich Miner says that developers can now afford to wait on iPhone (i.e., they should focus first on Android). Beyond the eye-rolling, "Well, what do you expect him to say?" I personally welcome the topic of which platform developers should develop on first, and why. After all, as flagged in the article that I wrote, I am for anything that better spotlights the core question of who is making money, how much and which vendor (Google, Apple, RIM, HP, MS) has come up with the best model for developers to make serious coin in the Post-PC era.
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- Apple's Segmentation Strategy (and the Folly of Conventional Wisdom)
- Understanding Apple's iPad
- Five reasons iPhone vs Android isn't Mac vs Windows
- The Chess Masters: Apple v. Google
