Me parece muy interesante; que mientras Microsoft casi se ha convertido en una victima de su nuevo sistema operativo, Apple ha sabido sacarle punta hasta más no poder al iPhone.
Y porque rayos... Como rayos puedo estar comparando yo el Apple iPhone versus el Windows Vista? Si son dos cosas totalmente distintas, no? Pues si... Y no.
Lo que sucede es que para mi, tanto Vista como el iPhone no son otra cosa que plataformas. O sea, una base sobre la cual se crea software, se crean servicios o se distribuye contenido. Y al final del día, realmente no importa cuan buena sea tal o cual plataforma sino lo que podamos hacer a través de esta.
Y para que la plataforma sea exitosa tiene que buscar que los programadores y los desarrolladores la auspicien. Ahí es donde parece ser que Apple está haciendo todas las movidas correctas. Mientras Microsoft languidece:
Apple's bait: Application developers swarm to iPhone:
"... some 250,000 iPhone software development kits have been downloaded. The App Store Web site, where applications will be sold or given away, is expected to launch soon, perhaps July 11 when the faster next-generation iPhone goes on sale.
Apple could be creating a billion-dollar industry built around the iPhone, said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. In a recent note to investors, Munster wrote that the App Store could create a $1 billion-plus iPhone ecosystem by the end of 2009.
Last week, 5,200 software developers packed San Francisco's Moscone Center for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference."
Developers Prefer XP Over Vista, Survey Shows:
"Only 8 percent of 380 developers surveyed by Evans Data Corp. in April are writing applications for Vista, while 49 percent are still writing applications for primarily for the predecessor Windows version , XP. In addition, 11 percent said are applications mostly for Microsoft Office 2003, while 9 percent are focused on Linux-based apps."
Coders Tell Why They're Avoiding Vista
"And why shouldn't they be? According to data released this spring by migration software vendor AppDNA Ltd., about a fifth of enterprise applications running on XP break when moved straight to Vista, mostly due to pre-XP-era code still lingering in the app. That increases to nearly half for apps migrated from 32-bit XP straight to 64-bit Vista."
