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> when the meta changes the people that were at the top will quickly find themselves at the top again.

I think parent is agreeing with you?

> This is why devs who started with J2ME are the holy grail of app developers, since they started making apps years before iPhone devs

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I was being sarcastic there, a bad habit of mine. There are some advantages to being an early adopter (you get to reap some of the benefits now), but it doesn't give you a permanent advantage, and the people who aren't closely following and adopting weeks-old tools aren't doomed to irrelevance.

The iPhone was an equalizer. Existing mobile devs did get a genuine head start on mobile app design, but their advantage was fleeting.

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