And, yet, you seem to be talking about developing for them in the past tense.
There's a reason why Apple and Google are dominant now, and it's not just marketing, luck and timing. They've built fertile marketplaces that (especially) independent developers can leverage to create cottage industries if not empires, instead of simply make a living doing VBA and VC++ CRUD applications.
Oh, XNA and C# may be truly saner to handle than Cocoa and Java, but who truly gives a damn when you can't keep the lights on with your .exe file on Windows.
There's a reason why Apple and Google are dominant now, and it's not just marketing, luck and timing. They've built fertile marketplaces that (especially) independent developers can leverage to create cottage industries if not empires, instead of simply make a living doing VBA and VC++ CRUD applications.
Oh, XNA and C# may be truly saner to handle than Cocoa and Java, but who truly gives a damn when you can't keep the lights on with your .exe file on Windows.