From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:52:07 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > Developers are important for an OS!   
      
   Users attract developers, not so much the other way round.   
      
   Look at Iphone versus Android: Apple’s platform was seen as way cooler,   
   and attracted more of the cool developers. So it got more apps. But   
   Android offered a wider range of choice and out-of-the-box functionality.   
   That attracted the users. It took years for Android to close the app gap,   
   nevertheless that wasn’t enough to keep Iphone dominant.   
      
   Remember Windows Phone? Microsoft was actually paying developers to put   
   apps on its platform. But in its user experience it was trying too much to   
   ape Apple, which is why it lost out to Android.   
      
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