From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 20:14:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 11/1/2025 6:13 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 17:44:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> But having most millions of apps does not matter. What matters is   
   >>> that the platform has the apps that are important.   
   >>   
   >> Which ones were important in the beginning? The big ones on Iphone   
   >> were simply not available on Android.   
   >   
   >>> Companies decided to support iOS and Android.   
   >>   
   >> Initially it was only IOS. They only added Android *after* it became   
   >> popular.   
   >   
   > That is not reality.   
   >   
   > Companies started supporting Android very quickly.   
      
   No, they started supporting Windows Phone very quickly. Those professional   
   pundits like Gartner and IDC predicted that it would dominate the   
   smartphone market after a couple of more years. That was the general   
   expectation, for quite a long while.   
      
   It took that long before reporters stopped treating Microsoft’s new mobile   
   announcements with the deepest respect, and started to realize that they   
   weren’t worth the electrons they were written on.   
      
   > Numbers say: 10000 apps after 1 year, 100000 apps after 2 years.   
      
   Compared to how much for IOS?   
      
   > A half year after app store launched it was obvious that   
   > a company wanting to be on smartphones needed to support both.   
      
   It took much longer than that.   
      
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