Especially when both have done everything in their power to make the lives of "competing platforms" as difficult as possible. It's hardly a winning VC pitch.
Strong language is coming, skip my post if you're delicate.
They're cowards. Plain and simple. They want a "safe" investment with a pre-defined path to an IPO in 2-10 years so they can cash out. Makes me fuckin' sick. We could have a third alternative to iOS and Android, but it won't be easy, it won't be fast, and it won't be cheap. These VC vultures don't have the goddamned balls to put significant amounts of money on the line with the prospect of absolutely no return ever, and that's why it'll take a miracle straight from Heaven for us to get a third option - because these people have no real grand vision and no damned backbone.
No one on Planet Earth is going to convince me that the best the human species can do is Android and iOS.
Forget the VC, even Microsoft, with a market cap close to Apple’s, and the net income to support it, are too cowardly to invest a few billion and 10 years into developing quality device.
The App Store was ruled not to be a separate product from iOS in Epic v Apple, so the iPhone really is the full package including iOS and App Store, and you must compete against it fully.
Especially when both have done everything in their power to make the lives of "competing platforms" as difficult as possible. It's hardly a winning VC pitch.