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As a iPhone-user gone Android, I can't wait to see all the awesome services which will be coming my way as Apple makes iOS an unfeasible platform to build on.
by trezor 15y ago
As a iPhone-user gone Android, I can't wait to see all the awesome services which will be coming my way as Apple makes iOS an unfeasible platform to build on.
So far their greed has been tolerated due to an early iOS lead on app-profitability. Now that the iPhone is getting (severely) dated with next to no advantages to bolster, and with Android overtaking iOS in every way (including the one which counts: marketshare) I can't see this holding up for very long.
Soon enough enough people will say "Fuck Apple" and just head to Android, leaving iOS as a niché market. Why develop for 10% of the world's smartphones when you could be doing 80%? Even if Android customers were 400% less willing to buy apps (and no, no current market trends indicate that is the case), Android would still be more profitable to developers.
Apple is doing some serious gambling here, and I honestly don't think it will play out to their advantage.
- pseudonym 15y agoThe problem is that it's not an if-else scenario with Apple and Android. Right now Apple is booting developers out with their restrictions, and in this case, the developer is making the same app as Apple has for free (iBooks). And if there's not sufficient Android users to make developing this app for the Android worth doing, then the developer isn't going to swap platforms, they'll just pack up and go home. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see more Android developers. I just don't think it's very likely until and unless Android picks up more steam...and that probably won't happen until the Android App store is as saturated in iOS's.