The title to this May 9 story, suggests another Apple bashing:
“Is Apple’s dominance of Mobile Development on the Wane?”
It appears to be an old editorial trick, the classic alarmist headline, because the article itself goes on to answer in the negative:
Apple is the logical choice for mobile development today
Where is market share going? The best bet is still targeting the Apple iPhone
This, providing further evidence for my calling BS on “Android Dominance” post last month.
I completely agree with author, Todd Warren, when he says “there are so many things wrong with developing on iPhone.” From a purely technical standpoint, developing for Android (or perhaps even, cough, Windows Phone) is a much more pleasant experience. However, from a business standpoint, the cold hard fact is: one can completely ignore Android, Samsung, and Windows Phone without consequence. Again, quoting the Forbes story:
As the success of Instagram shows, the iPhone market is big enough to bootstrap an application to millions of users.
I would take this a step further and say that not only is Apple iOS the logical choice for “mobile development” but that iOS is the choice for all future development, other than niche enterprise apps. In other words, the whole term “mobile development” as an exception is itself an archaic model. Non-mobile is now the exception.
