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200 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9029 19:27

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Go outside and see what people are doing. They're not just spending time out and about. They're checking their phones every 5 minutes. Mobile is a big deal. If you're not doing mobile development, what are you doing? iOS and Android are what you should be targeting first and foremost. Android Studio is multi-platform, but Xcode is macOS-only. Sure, you can do CLI stuff in Swift on other OSes, but you still can't use Xcode, Interface Builder, etc. iOS development is way more than just pure Swift.

Desktops are a thing of the past. Web is inferior to native (though still important in some ways). Laptops are dying off and being replaced with phones and tablets (except for developers, since Android and iOS are not viable platforms for developing software on them, unless you count "hello world" programs as being software development). But even so, mobile is overtaking traditional desktop platforms. I use macOS to make Android and iOS apps. If you need to target other platforms, just go with web or Java or something otherwise multi-platform as a kind of catch-all (React Native or Electron or something). But I'd say it's a waste of time to do platform-specific work if it's not for mobile.

Nowadays, you need to develop software for mobile FIRST. Mobile-first web development, with responsive design for desktops second. Mobile apps before desktop apps.

The average mouth-breather uses Facebook and an iPhone or an Android phone, and barely even knows how to use that stuff, as easy as it is. You and I can use computers, but most people prefer mobile platforms, since they're more idiot-friendly and casual/accessible. And if more people are using these platforms, you need to focus your attention on them.

Windows is a sinking ship. Satya Nadella is shifting Microsoft away from Windows and more into cloud and machine learning. Office 365, Azure, and whatever their TensorFlow competitor is called.

Amiga used to be #1 in personal computers. But they didn't adapt to market changes and they died. Microsoft didn't take mobile seriously, and now they're at a huge disadvantage for doing so. Technology changes rapidly, and if you don't adapt, you die. It's that simple. Whether or not you like the changes doesn't matter.

Mobile is like Eternal September on steroids, but even so, you can't ignore it.

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