GitHub has not seen Apple open source figure, but what does it matter?

Fred Wilson, a senior venture capital expert, believes Apple will lose its position in top-3 technology in 10 years because it focuses on hardware development and its weaknesses in cloud technology. But actually the connection between Apple and the developer could be a bigger problem.

It's not hard to see why Apple boasts that 6 million of developers last year were developing the iOS ecosystem, spending up to 10 billion dollars so far, 3 times times the sum paid to other platforms. Such a large number is impressive.

But turning the view, we can see that Apple is barely visible on the github. With the growing number of developers on GitHub and the growing activity of communities, can Apple Chice?

GitHub trends

Some might say that Apple doesn't have to look at other people's faces, after all, it's a bullish apple. RedMonk analyst Donnie Berkholz that neither Microsoft's C # nor Apple's C were expected to appear on the GitHub, since both ecosystems discouraged and did not actively block open source code.

As Berkholz said, C is now lonely and, to date, only 5 of the programming languages on GitHub have really shaken up their overall share: JavaScript, Ruby, Java, PHP, and Python.

An ecosystem outside of iOS

If we look at the job postings posted on Hackernews, the demand for IOS and Android developers is very similar, but if we look at the job postings posted on indeed.com, the results are similar:

The table looks different, but you should also look at the relative growth of the position:

It is clear that Apple is no longer the former overlord of Apple, as the recent investigation by Evans Data reveals:

41% of Android developers say they need only one months or less to complete an application, while only 36% of iOS developers and 34% of Windows Phone developers say they can do it as quickly as possible.

84% of developers have chosen Android as their mobile platform for tablets, compared with just 62% of developers choosing the iOS system.

This data shows how many developers are on their respective platforms, and beyond that, as Google's play abruptly goes from Apple's App store to a large number of users, it's not hard to see the challenges Apple faces next.

Time for fear?

The above does not mean that Apple is afraid from now on, but Apple does need to find some ways to embrace the broader, Open-source developer ecosystem and really integrate into the current development community. Otherwise, it would be anxious to turn to Android or even HTML5 for more developers.

Of course, these things would seem far-fetched if they were all around GitHub, as RedMonk's analyst James Governor said, "GitHub is no longer limited to web development, but the mainstream of all technology." ”

In order to keep mobile development thriving for the next 10 years, I think Apple should consider opening up the open scale for open source developers to be a little bit bigger, with GitHub on the top. (Compile subdirectory)

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