[OT] mobile rising

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:09:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> smaller search company, did with Android, leaving aside Apple 
> because of your silly claims that their existing software gave 
> them a headstart, which is why those former computing giants 
> are all either dead or fading fast.

It is hardly a silly claim:

NextStep (1989) ==> OS-X (2001) ==> iOS (2007)

That is 18 years of evolution and experience, and it also meant 
that they had the development tooling ready + experienced 
developers for their platform (macOS programmers). It also 
mattered a lot that Apple already had the manufacturing 
experience with prior attempts and also the streamlining of the 
iPod-line as well as the infrastructure for distribution and 
following up customers (again from the iPod line).

So, for Apple it was a relatively modest step to go from

  iPod + Mac frameworks + standard 3rd party chips + existing 
tooling + iTunes

  =>

iPhone

I think you are forgetting that hardly anyone wanted to develop 
apps for Android in the first few years. Android was pariah, and 
everybody did iOS apps first, then if it was a big success then 
maybe they would try to port it over to Android (but usually not).