<story><title>John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers</title><url>http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-gruber-has-some-career-advice-for.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cppsnob</author><text>I was sad to see that Gruber couldn&apos;t step out of his Apple bubble to tackle this topic (or any topic, ever), so I will:&lt;p&gt;Everyone who thinks &quot;I should be developing for platform X&quot; is thinking far too small.  Take a look around you.. how many of the great companies were formed developing for a particular platform (unless it&apos;s their own)?  Almost none.  In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?&lt;p&gt;You don&apos;t make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; for iOS.  Or &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; for Android.  If that&apos;s your business plan, tear it up and start over.  Because $0.99 a pop doesn&apos;t amount to jack-all unless you&apos;re Angry Birds.  And even they, if they got $1 for each of their 500MM downloads, have still not made as much as &lt;i&gt;Modern Warfare 3 made last week&lt;/i&gt; ($738MM in revenue).&lt;p&gt;Go create a market.  Stop being part of Apple&apos;s/Google&apos;s market for drumming up hardware sales and/or serving ads.</text></comment>
<story><title>John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers</title><url>http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-gruber-has-some-career-advice-for.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcooney</author><text>I don&apos;t want to under-estimate the importance of movable type...but what has Gruber developed? Looking at the list at &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://daringfireball.net/projects/&lt;/a&gt; doesn&apos;t exactly fill me with shock and awe. I&apos;d imagine with his huge following in the apple community he could put almost anything on the app store and it would sell. Can someone enlighten me? I guess my meta-point is, why am I reading software development career advice from someone who doesn&apos;t seem to be a developer?</text></comment>