{"id":2042,"date":"2009-10-20T22:40:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2009-10-20T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T02:40:09","slug":"steven-frank-on-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/steven-frank-on-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Frank on the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/218293148\/a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update\">Unfortunately<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/218293148\/a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update\"><p>iPhone competitors have less reason than ever to provide a stellar experience for Mac desktop users, as the iPhone has that angle sewn up. I expect future non-Apple smartphones to scale back Mac desktop support even further than they already do, as it will cost them a fortune to provide an experience that&rsquo;s even half as good as the iPhone provides with the iTunes\/MobileMe ecosystem.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilot_5000\">first time around<\/a>, Palm&rsquo;s Mac software was a late, crummy Windows port. This time, they&rsquo;re just trying to piggyback off iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Frank expands on <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/the-two-app-stores\/\">Marco Arment&rsquo;s point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/218293148\/a-couple-people-have-asked-me-to-post-an-update\"><p>In other words, you have the Windows market, and the Mac market, but within the app store itself. And you&rsquo;d better be damn sure which one you&rsquo;re targeting, and set pricing and development schedule accordingly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately: iPhone competitors have less reason than ever to provide a stellar experience for Mac desktop users, as the iPhone has that angle sewn up. I expect future non-Apple smartphones to scale back Mac desktop support even further than they already do, as it will cost them a fortune to provide an experience that&rsquo;s even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}