[spookie]

Their single biggest priority is to provide a better user experience for your customers compared to competitors.

Units sold in the smartphone world uses the same function video game consoles' market does: you simply offer a bigger and better software offerings, not just hardware.

If you, as a developer, have a worse time contributing to that ecosystem, then it is just a matter of time before the users themselves have a worse time with their device.

I take the comment above as a signal that something is clearly not working towards Apple's goals. Of course, you make your own judgements to support a platform or not, but this indicates that decision is a lot easier than it should be. In detriment of Apple's ecosystem.

All in all I wouldn't discount it.

[pixl97]

>Their single biggest priority is to provide a better user experience for your customers compared to competitors.

I mean in late stage capitalism their single biggest priority is to become a rent seeking monopoly by regulatory capture. If they can accomplish that, then user experience is a distant concern.

Luckily it looks like apple is having some problems with that recently.