Great post on Jerry Daniels Blog

[Jerry Daniels]

Peter,

You are right on target with your comments regarding small developers/consultants. They are the ones getting squeezed out by the shake up that Apple has started. I am one of those.

What my post points to, more than anything, is a glimpse of a new landscape for app development. My post addresses the Apple scenario exclusively, but I also have the other two major mobile platforms clearly in mind: Android and WebOS.

I believe these non-Apple platforms will also migrate to new, larger mobile devices that will edge out laptops and even desktops as we know them today. So, like all good hunters, I aim my arrow ahead of the game, not at it and certainly not behind it. Apple is just my first target. I doubt it will be my last.

As I said in the post referenced by this thread, times like this represent huge opportunity for small creative teams. I am not interested in philosophizing about this, however. I am a tool maker with a concrete plan of action.

Our Feature Friday post tomorrow at 10AM CDT/US (13:00 GMT) will have the details.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

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On May 6, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> It is an interesting and thought provoking posting, agreed.  It makes the
> case that there is a large opportunity from getting firmly inside the Apple
> camp, and a lot of people agree with this.   And it suggests that this is
> increasingly going to be a decision not about mobile, with the Apple desktop
> remaining as is.  It suggests that the model is going to spread to the Apple
> desktop in the near future, and this seems plausible.
> 
> The more walled this Apple camp becomes, and the more it includes all Apple
> platforms, the more of a binary decision it becomes.  The harder it becomes
> for a small business to be in that camp and in the other two (Linux and
> Windows), because the less economies of scale there are from being in all of
> them together.  The effect is that you don't get to leverage your investment
> in Apple in other markets.  Which probably makes sense to Apple, and it may
> then make sense to the smaller business to just give up the other markets
> and get into the Apple camp.
> 
> Consider it from the point of view of someone not in the Apple camp, having
> no intention of going anywhere near it.  Some of us left that country years
> ago and are never going back.  We don't use Apple stuff, we don't write for
> it.  For good or bad reasons, one can argue, but that's the way it is.  So
> where, if Jerry is right, does that leave us, if Rev decides to bite the
> bullet and move in?
> 
> Probably out in the cold.  Its hard to believe there will be enough
> resources to do all platforms.  Its also hard to believe that Apple really
> wants there to be a genuine cross platform product, and Apple can dictate
> exactly what you can develop for it on, any of it, in the medium term.  So
> Rev may find itself faced with an awkward choice:  dump Linux, or dump
> Apple.   
> 
> Jerry's argument is, by implication, the rewards are with Apple.  Maybe so,
> intelligent people can argue both sides of the costs benefits and
> likelihoods.   What seems certain is that if this is the choice, we Linux
> users of Rev are going to get squeezed out.  And this is not a trivial
> tradeoff as it was a year or so ago, because now its also we developers for
> Android who will get squeezed out as well.  Now that is a real tradeoff and
> it gets to be bet the company time.  Not just for Rev, for the small
> developers too.
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