The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
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The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
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Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#2I don't know about that... I think the only conclusion you could draw from this might be that the market for iOS and Mac _RSS readers_ are almost the same size. You might even be able to stretch it to say they are the _same_ market.
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#3Apple fan/dev here: he's an old school Mac influencer who got famous for writing the first popular Mac RSS client, and blind to the effects his particular narrative would have on those numbers - it's the same 30,000 people who are hip to Mac blog culture, not independent discovery on two separate platforms
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#4> Yes, the iOS app has more downloads, and it got there in only a few weeks. But if the iOS market were so much larger than the Mac market, you’d have expected this to happen within a day or two of launch day.
Based on what logic? Everything about this article feels like it's based on vague and incorrect assumptions.
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#5I don't know about that... I think the only conclusion you could draw from this might be that the market for iOS and Mac _RSS readers_ are almost the same size. You might even be able to stretch it to say they are the _same_ market.
I wouldn’t even draw that conclusion. NetNewsWire is very old school with an old fan base, and outside its existing fan base I don’t think it’s particularly relevant today (sorry). I doubt a user new to RSS or new to RSS reader on Apple platforms today would land on NNW.
(I’m a longtime Reeder user.)
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
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Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#7Apple fan/dev here: he's an old school Mac influencer who got famous for writing the first popular Mac RSS client, and blind to the effects his particular narrative would have on those numbers - it's the same 30,000 people who are hip to Mac blog culture, not independent discovery on two separate platforms
The Venn diagram of people who use BBedit and NetNewswire is roughly a circle.
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#8Apple fan/dev here: he's an old school Mac influencer who got famous for writing the first popular Mac RSS client, and blind to the effects his particular narrative would have on those numbers - it's the same 30,000 people who are hip to Mac blog culture, not independent discovery on two separate platforms
The Venn diagram of people who use BBedit and NetNewswire is roughly a circle.
Pretty sure BBEdit has wider appeal than NetNewsWire. For one thing BBEdit is the only decent text editor on Mac App Store (not that it’s a high bar to clear).
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#9Any iOS app has a ton of competition within its category for a many-times larger audience. Any macOS app has very little competition for a tiny audience. 36k downloads can mean that you've captured a larger audience on one platform than the other, and that seems more reasonable than the conclusion that the audience sizes are the same.
Re: The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
#10I don't know about that... I think the only conclusion you could draw from this might be that the market for iOS and Mac _RSS readers_ are almost the same size. You might even be able to stretch it to say they are the _same_ market.
Or the Mac market is so much smaller that the iOS market that there is practically no competition for an in-demand RSS reader on Mac and barely any space to enter the market on iOS.