Why are there more IOS apps?
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- jagara
Okay, i get that Apple kickstarted the whole smartphone-game with style, and everyone got Iphones at first. But now there are way more Android-devices than Iphones. WP7 is still a niche market, but has huge potential, IMO...
So why are there still so few apps on Android Market, compared to Appstore (let's ignore Windows Market for now)?
If you develop something successful for Iphone, is'nt there shit loads of money to be earned by promptly making an Android version of it?
Has Apple made some sort of shitty contractual monopoly licencing clause involved in making an IOS app, that prevents the companies from releasing it for Android as well, or within a reasonable amount of time (something cool for Iphone takes months or even years to come out on Android, if it's released for Android at all)?
- mydo0
the people making apps are mac fanboys?
- qoob0
I think iOS has more sales
- spookykat0
I think most Android users expect to get the same apps on iOS for free on the Android Marketplace. Just look at Angry Birds, the overall market just isn't willing to pay. Whose going to update and create new content when everyone is a cheapskate. Nobody cares about copyright issues. At least Apple is doing somewhat of a decent job in overseeing rip-offs in their marketplace. It just isn't easy or intuitive enough the last time I used the marketplace, so I can see why nobody really wants to create stuff for it.
- Continuity0
I would venture to guess that if you're going to develop a mobile app, you know what to expect from Apple because it's one OS on two more-or-less identical platforms (if it follows that the iPad is really just an over-large iPhone.)
With Android, on the other hand, you're dealing with one OS that is installed on loads of hardware with different configurations, and tweaked accordingly. I can only imagine it creates a pretty big headache for Android app developers, if the their goal is cross-platform compatibility (interesting that this term/notion is a recurring theme in digital since the 1990s ... ).
- jagara0
@spookykat Then i don't get why Google has'nt got their shit together long ago, and streamlined the whole AM experience. There's money to be made... is'nt that what companies care about, more than anything else?
@Continuity True, true... Apple's walled garden approach is their biggest selling point. Everything just works in Appleland.
- Because its not priority or they don't know how to do it yet. I bought the Nexus One which was Google's first dabble into wireless phones, it showed me how unprepared and premature they are in this market.spookykat
- raf0
- Good article!jagara
- how is that shocking, should have been obvious from day 1animatedgif
- pango0
Apple's a genius at beating free.
they got everyone paying for music when you could download for free.
- inteliboy0
God forbid we pay for music or software.
- or phones... it's buy one get one free for lots of Android devicesmonospaced
- animatedgif0
- Android users = Android owners, cos they sure as hell aint using their phones 100%animatedgif