Does anyone else wonder why we often can't get a popular application, yet there are 5 substitute/clone apps of it available?
It just seems odd to me that for some reason it's too difficult or cost prohibitive for a big developer to give us a version of their app, say Instagram, yet it is no problem for some 14 year old kid to develop a clone of it in his parents basement with nowhere near the resources or money of a big developer.
Can someone explain to me how this is the case? I just don't get it.
Luckily, it hasn't been an issue for me because I don't care about Instagram and there are native WP versions of pretty much every app I want. However I think it's pretty lame than when a potential new user comes along and asks if we have a certain app half of us tell them the app is stupid and they shouldn't use it anyway and the other half suggest a dozen knockoffs of the app when all the person wants is the real thing.
I really don't get it though. How hard could it be to make a damn Instagram app or whatever when some young punk developer living on ramen noodles can seem to crank out a clone of it in an afternoon?
It just seems odd to me that for some reason it's too difficult or cost prohibitive for a big developer to give us a version of their app, say Instagram, yet it is no problem for some 14 year old kid to develop a clone of it in his parents basement with nowhere near the resources or money of a big developer.
Can someone explain to me how this is the case? I just don't get it.
Luckily, it hasn't been an issue for me because I don't care about Instagram and there are native WP versions of pretty much every app I want. However I think it's pretty lame than when a potential new user comes along and asks if we have a certain app half of us tell them the app is stupid and they shouldn't use it anyway and the other half suggest a dozen knockoffs of the app when all the person wants is the real thing.
I really don't get it though. How hard could it be to make a damn Instagram app or whatever when some young punk developer living on ramen noodles can seem to crank out a clone of it in an afternoon?