| """how many of the great companies were formed developing for a particular platform (unless it's their own)? Almost none.""" Tons. But depends what you mean by great. I hear that that Angry Birds company is doing ok. And I know there are thousands of companies making Windows only products that make quite well. """In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?""" Neither I want to be the old and busted failed startup founder. """You don't make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing just for iOS.""" More like: you don't make the Google's, Facebooks, Twitters, period. Those kinds of companies are so few, you are almost as likely to win the lottery than create one. It's just the protestant ethic of "hard work = success" and the retroactive worshiping of their founders that makes it seem not so. There's nothing wrong about building a smaller business, either a lifestyle mom+pop shop, or a 100 employee company. Not only there's nothing wrong about it, but you are far more likely to succeed. |