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When I talk to Android users about my preference for building for the iOS store, they chastise me. When I talk to other developers, they're generally in agreean
by kevinelliott 16y ago
When I talk to Android users about my preference for building for the iOS store, they chastise me. When I talk to other developers, they're generally in agreeance with me (with some exceptions, namely purely hacker types not looking to make real profit who are more hobby oriented). Unless your revenue model is ad driven or complementary to another product, it is very hard to make a reasonable living on the Android Market. Users looking for an "open" experience are expecting free/cheap apps, and are willing to use less perfect free/cheap apps over your perfected "expensive" one. Fragmentation (which certainly exists, even on the App Store) simply exaggerates this problem.
- spiffworks 16y agoThe situation is getting better with regard to paid apps, 18 new countries got access a month back. Also, Paypal integration is rumoured to be on the way. And please don't make blanket statements like this unless you have data to back it up: >Users looking for an "open" experience are expecting free/cheap apps, and are willing to use less perfect free/cheap apps over your perfected "expensive" one Anybody would rather use a free/cheap app rather than an expensive one. I don't know that FOSS users are any different in this regard. Edit: Remember Marco Arment's "Two App Stores"? The same is true of Android, and any other market.