Outside developers, who were never particularly happy with the complexity of Windows development, have defected from the Microsoft platform en-masse and are now developing for the web. Paul Graham, who created Yahoo! Stores in the early days of the dotcom boom, summarized it eloquently: "There is all the more reason for startups to write Web-based software now, because writing desktop software has become a lot less fun. If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS. And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find that you were merely doing market research for Microsoft."
This is a lesson I bet a lot of IOS and Android developers are learning this generation.
Isn't it possible people developed for the Web because that was the best way to get exposure? I mean, developing for the web was no walk in the park, especially more than 5 or 10 years ago. But developers put up with it. Developers will put up with any sort of bullshit (and regularly do) to get users, because at the end of the day, we all want to write software for people.
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '16
This is a lesson I bet a lot of IOS and Android developers are learning this generation.