Developer interest in Mac is waning, study suggests
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New estimates suggest developers are losing interest in releasing new apps on the Mac App Store, with new releases per month down to below 300 titles in June and July.
It's gone negative?
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New estimates suggest developers are losing interest in releasing new apps on the Mac App Store, with new releases per month down to below 300 titles in June and July.
It's gone negative?
It's a few less.
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New estimates suggest developers are losing interest in releasing new apps on the Mac App Store, with new releases per month down to below 300 titles in June and July.
It's gone negative?
It seems more to me like a mature market, not one in which people are necessarily losing interest. One of the illnesses (as I see it) of everything commercial related to computers is the assumption that everything must be growing at a rapid rate all the time. No, that can't and won't last. At some point, maturity will arrive and growth rates will slow down. A much gentler growth rate is more sustainable in the longer run (and this is true in all areas of industry and commerce). Sure, there are beancounters and venture-funders always seeking the new rapid-growth area but they must always, ultimately, be disappointed in order for real, substantive, long term sustainable economic development to take place and stick. Capitalism does not (or should not and cannot in the longer term) rely on exponential growth and 'disruption' all the time. Maturity and gradual development are what eventually pay the bill in the longer term.