Absolutely, but many companies develop software with the purpose of meeting the needs of users and/or solving specific problems users currently experience—they're not necessarily only trying to do that for the users of one OS/company.
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This is the dumbest thing ever. Why there’s no calculator app on iPad is mind boggling.
That would be great. For now, I use “MyRadar.” It works well, is very detailed and have a great watch app as well.
I’m one of Dark Sky’s (and its previous version) biggest fans. I love it and can’t imagine living without it. Adam Grossman and the other owners wouldn’t have sold it without serious consideration. But for its future? Well, things evolve and change and if Dark Sky someday also changes, I accept that‘s almost inevitable and I’ll move on. It’s just a weather app.
Ok the beta of ios 14 I’m getting precipitation updates on the widget showing me the same thing I was getting from dark sky with the updates on rain. Shows a little graph on the widget when it’s raining too.
It would seem that if Apple is holding until EOY 2021; then they are likely to release Weather to CoreLocation or CoreWeather at WWDC 2021. It would be a shame to completely waste a technology that has that user base built in; but this is why I say likely.
"Hundreds or even thousands of companies" use Windows for their devices, but I guess Apple is the dominant player in the PC market with their 17% marketshare, right?
You really killed my argument by mentioning unrelated things. It seems you don't understand that this is a phone thread.
"Hundreds or even thousands of companies" use a certain operating system. Yet, you're saying somehow a phone market is wildly different than a PC market, even though the phone is essentially a computer.
What you're saying is the most stupid thing I've ever heard. Feel free to reply, but I'm done. I will not be reading anymore replies from you.
Those of us who were using Macs back in the 90s appreciate the irony of posts like this.
And no, they are not taking over anything.
If only there was some way to download a calculator app on the iPad. Oh well, maybe someday.
Based on numbers its true - but regarding profit which enables Apple to develop and/or acquire applications is what matters. Now this sucks for Android - but I think Google should pay more attention to its application space as it provides half hearted support to anything outside Search/Mail/Docs.
Apple is building a platform to provide the best applications across its ecosystem. It is now accelerating that effort.
Google relies on third party developers alone which is a mistake.
That’s crazy talk! Why, I heard of one gent who tried to download a calculator app to his iPad, and aliens came down in a UFO and whisked him away. No way I would try that - too dangerous! So, we sit, helpless, in the dark, hoping in vain that one day Apple will add a default calculator app to the iPad.
Apple is not the underdog by any means... Apple is a company, android is not. Its an operating system used by many companies. And it just happens that in this world we live in that company called Apple is the most valuable company in human history.... so yeah they can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything about it!
Actually Apple has been doing this all their lives. I believe all of : OS X, AppleWorks, FileMaker, iTunes, Siri are bought.
Sad though we no longer see much innovative software from Apple its all about the hardware.
Actually, Apple is the only other dog. Its the only real alternative to Windows and the only real alternative to Android. Its oligopoly.
Most of them have ads and require payment to remove the ads. This is hardly the point, however. There's literally no logical reason the iPad doesn't have a built-in calculator when the iPhone does ... and the Mac does ... and literally every other device in the last 30 years does. There's no reason not to have it. It's arbitrary and bizarre.
I would hardly call a company recently market-valued at nearly 2 trillion dollars an underdog.
