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This is ridiculous. One uninnovative developer getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality in iOS application.
by idbentley 13y ago
This is ridiculous. One uninnovative developer getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality in iOS application.
- pazimzadeh 13y agoYou're ridiculous, and I predict that Marco will be laughing his way to the bank. Let's revisit this in say December or Spring of next year, shall we?
- gwern 13y ago> getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality > laughing his way to the bank Error: type mismatch identified.
- pazimzadeh 13y agoWhat users need is not more choice; as Marco said, the App Store is crowded. What users need is higher quality apps, which iOS 7 will purportedly enable. Therefore, developers who take advantage of this opportunity will make more money than those who don't. I am using the beta on my primary phone, and I am starting to see what Marco is talking about.
- sillysaurus 13y agoThere's a fallacy in your reasoning: that quality wins. This isn't always true. Word of mouth is a much more powerful force than raw quality. Look at eBay, for example. Most apps luckily don't have many network effects. But I won't be switching PDF readers just because the new one looks more like iOS 7.
- pazimzadeh 13y agoI agree with you, although I think that Apple is betting that "looks more like iOS 7" is more like "works better thanks to features only available in iOS 7". See this tweet by @flyosity: "Damn, the UIKit animation/dynamics effects in iOS 7 are some seriously futuristic stuff. Can't wait to see what people do with it." https://twitter.com/flyosity/status/344642697241436160 https://twitter.com/flyosity/status/344642697241436160
- ghshephard 13y agoUninnovative? Tumblr, Instapaper, "The Magazine.", atp.fm? Just saying.