The Only Constant
In case you didn’t already guess, the mobile platform I was just talking about was Windows Mobile. Back in the days before the iPhone changed the mobile space, Windows Mobile had a pretty good thing going. It already had everything the iPhone introduced: an app store (by a different name) and good tools (for the time), and it ran on pretty sweet devices (by those days’ standards). It had a big competitor, or maybe more than one—who can remember back that far? The point is that if you were making your living by developing Windows Mobile apps then, there’s a really good chance you no longer are. Not that it would have helped to have been proficient at more than one platform when iOS came out and made them all pretty much obsolete. ...
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