what? an about-turn for me? Only because I'm such a Mac-head.
You see, I read an exciting post by one of the iPhone App developers. Fraser Speirs is no stranger to Mac development. Now he's developing Flickr Apps for the iPhone. He is the developer behind one of the first things I downloaded and started using: Exposure.
So here's what he said in his blog post.
If you haven’t got it already, it’s time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple’s mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond. It’s a bold prediction, but the numbers seem fairly clear.
He pontificates that since Apple sold 1,000,000 phones last weekend, and since they keep selling faster and faster, that by 2012 Apple will have a larger installed base of iPhones than Macintoshes. That's scary. Does that mean that Apple starts paying more attention to the iPhone than the desktop? Like the way they quietly (ha!) discontinued the Apple ][ line in favor of the Mac?
Of course, he's predicting the future with figures from right now. He neglected to notice that Apple's Mac sales increased 38% this quarter. Maybe the iPhone and iPod halo effect really is beginning to kick in.
For now, the iPhone is a tiny computer riding a giant wave of cool. Mr. Speirs says his app Exposure is averaging 3,200 downloads a day from the App Store at iTunes. I wonder if it counts the re-downloads and upgrades as downloads…
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More geeky gadgetry…Yawn…
Bah! Predictions of the future! Talk is cheap - so, let's see what kind of consequence would happen should that prediction fail to come true. 2012 is barely 3.5 years from now. If the iPhone install base isn't larger than the desktop base, then what? How about he donate all of his Apple stock?
Oo… I wonder if we could apply a rule like that to the CEOs and elected officials out there. I might start watching the news then!