A Reaction to “The Negative Impact Of iOS On Android”
A Developer’s Reaction to the Concept That in Competing Platforms, if the Standard Has Limitations, it Inhibits Ability for Other Platforms to Push Innovation.

As a fellow Android developer in a cross-platform shop, a recent blog post by Ian G. Clifton, The Negative Impact Of iOS On Android, certainly hit home with me. The basic concept of the article is that in the world of mobile application development, while iOS and Android have had a healthy competitive relationship that has driven innovation, iOS has somehow taken on the role of being the “standard” platform. Thus, applications are being written and...