OmniOutliner Position on Cloning Confusing

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 8, 2010 at 10:00 PM

Hugh wrote:
>For the last six
>months or so, most if not all of those developers have faced very loud demands from some
>of their customers that they develop for the iPad. Ironically, those demands have
>been especially vocal from customers of developers whose OS X applications have been
>most successful; the insistence and stridency of some of them have to be read to be
>believed.

Hugh, you raise a very interesting point. To take it one step further, I note that an iPhone app seems to be at the moment a must for just about any webware (web 2.0) application out there, from social media to online project management tools to whatever.

As a non-iPhone user, I find that my choices are significantly reduced. If I want to have mobile access to the webware I choose, I need to buy an iPhone.

So software developers are pressured to develop for the iPhone/IPad and users have little choice than to buy iPhones/iPads to access their applications. How the age of diversity and competition has led to such a monopolistic situation escapes me.