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Originally Posted by taylor192
Who do you develop for? It seems you have no idea how this industry works.
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I've been a software engineer since the 80's. I develop embedded applications for the automotive market and currently work with several different microcontroller families.
I would
love to have a single development tool that would allow me to write for all families and have my software work perfectly on all of them. But they are competitors and the chance of that is zero. So I had to learn each system and I pick the family I need for a particular application depending on how suitable it is for that application.
In the end, Apple has been very successful with their App Store and iPhone/iPad/iPod products. They have garnered a significant share of the smartphone market in a very short period of time. The App Store has a lot of developers writing Apps and a huge selection to choose from (waiting for people to chime in about the thousands of useless Apps while ignoring the many truly excellent ones).
So it seems Apple's business model, whether you like it or not, has been highly successful. And with all things successful, there are always going to be haters.