#195: Pincer Maneuvers and Stubbed Toes.

Developing Perspective · Sep 17, 2014 · 14m

With the rollout of iOS 8 upon us I consider two aspects of the current Apple ecosystem that appear to lie in tension.

Pincer Maneuvers

Apple is fantastic at laying groundwork. When you take a step back and how their offerings both on software and hardware have evolved over the last few years you can clearly see how much forethought has gone into their approach. Apple doesn’t just throw things over the wall as soon as they are ready. Instead they prefer to gradually expand and enhance their capabilities over time, giving developers lots of warning and time to adapt.

I can think of many areas…