Developers on Apple's platforms pour their careers and lives into building apps that predominately depend on Apple. This is a very large commitment, yet most developers tend to have a scant understanding of Apple's business model beyond the usual headlines about AppStore's 30% commission or supply chain rumors about the next product.
Given the significance of this investment by us developers, perhaps it makes sense for us to better understand the business of Apple, which we all depend on.
It's been such a disappointing trend of companies initially welcoming developers, just to then eat their lunch. Twitter has been one of the worst: they killed their developer ecosystem.
Apple falls very far from that tree. Lots of money is being transferred to developers even today. It's just hard to see because so much is getting sloshed around.
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Developers on Apple's platforms pour their careers and lives into building apps that predominately depend on Apple. This is a very large commitment, yet most developers tend to have a scant understanding of Apple's business model beyond the usual headlines about AppStore's 30% commission or supply chain rumors about the next product.
Given the significance of this investment by us developers, perhaps it makes sense for us to better understand the business of Apple, which we all depend on.
The question is: how?
It's been such a disappointing trend of companies initially welcoming developers, just to then eat their lunch. Twitter has been one of the worst: they killed their developer ecosystem.
This is true (about Twitter.)
Apple falls very far from that tree. Lots of money is being transferred to developers even today. It's just hard to see because so much is getting sloshed around.