{"id":8553,"date":"2021-07-09T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2021-07-09T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:21:30","slug":"linked-ios-closing-of-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/07\/09\/linked-ios-closing-of-the-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;iOS: Closing of the Frontier&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1178,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mjtsai.com\\\/blog\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/07\\\/ios-closing-of-the-frontier&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250513090106\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mjtsai.com\\\/blog\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/07\\\/ios-closing-of-the-frontier\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 18:42:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 01:31:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-06 11:16:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 13:40:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 14:16:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 13:56:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 13:17:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-31 12:39:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 15:41:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 14:36:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 11:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 08:25:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-25 03:30:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 23:19:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 19:38:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 15:11:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-13 10:44:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-18 11:23:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 05:35:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 14:48:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 11:31:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:06:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 06:13:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 01:14:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 19:42:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 13:50:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 20:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 08:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 08:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/07\/ios-closing-of-the-frontier\/\">Michael Tsai &#8211; Blog &#8211; iOS: Closing of the Frontier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tsai<em>, &#8220;No one can invent the next Dropbox on iOS, and perhaps not even on Android. I guess the frontier is now the desktop platforms, but do they have enough mindshare for the next big thing to break through?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t like to deal in absolutes on anything. I sometimes write in absolutes, like Tsai because publishers need to put a stake in the ground on a position but in this case, I don\u2019t disagree but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s impossible that there isn\u2019t a Dropbox\/Box\/Office365\/Slack\/Teams\/iCloud\/GDrive waiting in the back of someone\u2019s mind or in a few lines of code that will carve out its position.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that the iOS gold rush is done but there will always be another technical frontier for which the next prospectors will be able to claim their homestead and some will strike gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Michael Tsai &#8211; Blog &#8211; iOS: Closing of the Frontier: Tsai, &#8220;No one can invent the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-09T13:21:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"8b92d47c-3ab5-4599-9db8-e551787e3706","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-09T13:21:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ai5LUfDq1RZmduOVReH43Bg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2dX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7399,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/linked-charles-proxy-for-ios\/","url_meta":{"origin":8553,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Charles Proxy for iOS&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"via: Michael Tsai - Blog - Charles Proxy for iOS: Just installed this, identified a few applications I never use that could safely be deleted Skype Meetup Google Maps Amazon Prime\u00a0 Outlook The only nosey application i\u2019m going to keep is Yelp. 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