Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
- Subject: Re: "If you build it, they will come" [Re: Sal]
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 01:46:31 +0000
[monkeynuts…hit Send too soon; trying again]
On 19/11/2016 01:07, edmund ronald wrote:
The problem is that the Mac marketshare is insufficient to support
end to end technologies.
That's why Mac OS is built on top of an open-source foundation.
Actually macOS is built on top of an OSS foundation cos that's what the
NeXTSTEP OS was built on, and macOS is made out of repurposed NeXTSTEP.
A tech based on a cross-platform open source tool language is what is
needed here.
Wanted by users, perhaps. Needed by Apple? Can't imagine why. Apple
needs something that gives them a clear advantage over Google for the
next several years (i.e. as long as it takes Google to make their own
clone). Why make it any easier for Google to catch up? See: "Unique
Selling Point".
While you lead the field, you keep the best stuff to yourself. Only
reason to OSS it is when you see the competition closing, and you want
to upset your rival's inertia by splitting its audience between their
stuff and yours. By which time, assuming you've been doing your job
right, you're already well on your way to launching your _next_ Big New
Thing, and pulling away from them again with that. Repeat ∞ times.
As I say: never regret trashing your old product as a way to boost your
new. Especially if you can strew that trash all over the roadway behind
you. ;)
has
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