Leaving aside all the ridicule and personal opinions about Chen's intellect, I would be genuinely interested in knowing, how, we as consumers, would be affected, if at all, apps become OS neutral. What do we have to lose, if app neutrality does come in to effect?
Whether it is a ploy to save a dying company, or questions like why iOS and Android should do away with their competitive advantage, is for the OS owners to worry. What I am trying to figure out is, why is there resistance from consumers, who stand to benefit the most.
P.S. I use an iphone 5, since Jan 2013, it being my 1st Apple product. The last Blackberry, I used was the Bold 9900 and moved to iOS because of the lack of apps on BB OS and also because of the availability of Iphone cases over BB, in all price ranges :rotfl:,
I will answer with a cliche. Jack of all trades master of none.
Let me take the best example I can find and one I used often back when I still gave a hoot about BlackBerry. My Bank of America app. My iOS app is fast, fluid, no stutters. It's got several settings and alerts that I use to monitor activity because it's the one I use online. Every day, I get a notification of balance. I get notification of any deductions and transactions. I get notifications of activity such as access from a new browser.
Those are not available on the web app.
I want my experience to remain as it is.
In order to code universally for BlackBerry, Android, and WP, the developer will have to test and support four times as many platforms as now.
Now extrapolate that to a small developer who might be a fan kicking off a brand new "hey this would be cool" idea. That places a burden on that developer.
Here it is....developers, take care of your own. Your customer base. I'm your customer. Develop for me. I don't care one iota that BlackBerry tossed native developers into the waste bin with their "better Android than Android" idea. Now that that's done, don't come after mine. Don't penalise the "hey! This would be cool!" guy who might create something for me because you, BlackBerry, dug yourself into a hole with "tools not toys" battle cries. So is Netflix suddenly a required tool? Or is this an opportunistic new battle cry now that the hole is so deep that a ladder is needed to get out?
I chose iPhone in no small part because of its ecosystem. Don't come pooching into it, BlackBerry, the way you have gone pooching Android. You didn't value your developers. Oh well. Tools not toys I guess. Continue your instructions to your customers to put a shortcut in the home screen. Leave my app developers alone. Your co CEOs said apps didn't matter. Your current CEO respects developers so little that they espouse the pooching of apps. That's your bed now, Blackberry. Lie in it.
Sent from my SEXY GORGEOUS AWESOME GOLD 128G iPhone 6
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