[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 20:13:49 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/4/2024 5:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 15:58:10 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> Inserted back:
> 
> #But what I heard from most WP users back then was that they #actually
> liked the UI.
> 
>>> What made many of them drop WP was the lack of apps.
>> 
>> No it wasn’t.
> 
> Are you telling me that you know better than me what I heard back then?

Yes. I watched it unfold, in my efforts to learn Android development 
myself. I saw the comments about apps and lack of apps.

>>              When Android started, it didn’t have the apps either: for
>> years afterwards, developers still prioritized Apple’s platform, and
>> only grudgingly did apps for Android.
>> 
>> But that didn’t stop Android becoming ridiculously popular and
>> dominating the mobile world. Android was popular because it offered
>> users such a huge choice of device form factors and capabilities, out
>> of the box.
> 
> Companies did create Android apps. I have no idea whether happy or
> grudgingly. But they did.

Yes, eventually, like I said. Even some years later, you could say that 
Apple’s platform still had the app advantage. Yet that didn’t stop Android 
from outselling it by 3:1. (Not sure what the ratio is now.)

> It took Google 1 year to reach 100000 apps and 4 years to reach 1
> million. Apple took 1 year and 5 years for the same, so practically the
> same velocity and same level reached in 2013.

Not sure about sheer quantity, but there was a definite feeling that the 
important apps came first to Apple’s platform for many years.