[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/4/2024 8:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

Did you read what I wrote?

>>>               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.

There may have been such a feeling.

But the numbers show that it took very little time for Android to get
get apps.

Arne