The Story So Far...
In the beginning there was a mobile platform, and it was good. It ran on the best mobile hardware available, both phones and tablets. It had an app store, where consumers could buy new software for their mobile devices. Developers liked to develop for this platform because the devices had fancy UIs, powerful SDKs were available, and people could make money from the app store to support their development.
There was a competing platform, though, and a lot of those devices looked pretty good, too. But it wasn’t that easy to develop on. Its marketplace wasn’t as good and the toolset was really hard to work with. If you were a developer on the first platform, it didn’t seem very appealing to try to learn a whole different platform. ...
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