Comments on: Developer Evangelism: A Few Notes for Samsung and Microsoft

By: Bea Taft

Bea Taft — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:43:00 +0000

It’s largely a room of company decision makers that want to know if your
platform is a viable business. Both Samsung and Microsoft’s evangelists
were lacking on their ability to pitch the platforms as businesses.

By: lipo los angeles

lipo los angeles — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:20:00 +0000

At the Samsung event, this was briefly mentioned and took up about 2
seconds compared to the 20 minutes the speaker took showing us the specs
of devices we’d already read about.

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By: Jeff Bacon

Jeff Bacon — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:30:00 +0000

I agree with the general principle that the question Microsoft, Samsung and RIM all need to have good answers for is: “Will I make more money on your platform than it costs to develop for it?” The problem is that’s a very hard question to answer as each developer has a different cost structure. To compensate, all these platform, holders need to give REAL hard numbers and case studies on developers. Yeah, the first few won’t be impressive compared to the top apps on Android or iOS but if the case studies are done consistently and over time, it will show the trend for these ecosystems of growth and profitability for developers — and that’s what will attract more developers faster than better dev tools or device features.

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:06:00 +0000

It’s kind of telling that you compare Blackberry’s numbers to the “smaller fish” of the platforms.

Also, most of the “mass market” apps are the free ones (Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, etc). The incentive for those companies is to get as many people using their services, either through their website itself or mobile apps. Sure there has to be a decent-sized install base to justify building and supporting an app for, but I think for them the point of entry isn’t too steep.
And just because this isn’t necessarily enticing for bigger devs, it could open the door for smaller devs to thrive (relatively) on that platform.