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That's been the traditional way of launching new apps—iPhone development is way easier and iPhone owners are way wealthier.

by eznzt 6y ago

dmingod666 6y ago
How many dozen people exist outside America? I recon atleast 2, 3 if I were generous.. probably only half of those barbarians can read...
jonplackett 6y ago
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for stating 2 facts. Don’t shoot the messenger.
- notsureaboutpg 6y ago
  That's not the traditional way of developing apps though, especially not now when cross platform app development is easier than native development on either platform
- dmingod666 6y ago
  For a service that is free, in what context is it a better thing that it's users have more money? Just sounds like you think rich people are better... Btw, I'm sure you'll be pretty surprised finding out how much current iphone 5 owners make a year..
  - jonplackett 6y ago
    It will have to make money somehow won’t it. It will either need to do advertising or get people to pay. Getting people to pay is easier if they have more money. Getting well-paying advertisers is also easier if your audience has more money. The main thing I was commenting on though was iPhone being much easier to develop for. This is indisputable.
    - dmingod666 6y ago
      WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter these are the general social media platforms that Clubhouse comes in the category of. How many of them would rather be better off with only rich users and iPhone users? 'social media' app clones are available for a few hundred bucks with all features.. the billions valuations of these companies doesn't come from technology, it comes from user reach and numbers.. for social, the app with the bigger userbase takes all.. unless it's marketed specifical for a niche sector.. Iphone being easier to develop for is indisputable. Lolz! Lots of "poor guys", a lot of them with money, in this world that look at apple and think overpriced hardware... Can you develop for android on mac? Yes. Can you develop for android on Linux, yes, windows yes. Can you use a common language that is very easy to find devs for, yes. To make an iphone app, You need a mac laptop and a paid developer account. Unlike java, swift is barely used for anything else than apple products, so devs for apple products are more expensive. I mean, agree personal views and preferences may determine peoples choices and in many ways the apple store experience is much better than android, but "indisputable" is stretching the meaning of the word too far.
      - jonplackett 6y ago
        Instagram launched iPhone only and was iPhone only for 2 years We’re not talking about long term - this is just about when you’re doing the bare minimum to get going, as all startups must. You can launch a successful app iPhone only. You can’t launch a successful app android only (happy to be enlightened if you can prove me wrong with an example). Startups only have limited development resources. So what do you do? Many decide to do iPhone only - in the beginning You’re missing the point about iPhone being easier to develop for. Yeah anyone is free to develop android, but the android ecosystem is a mess. So many versions of android with varying features and so many phones to test on. Some stuck on decade older software. Whereas on iOS 90% of people are on the latest OS and 99% are only 1 or 2 steps behind with VERY similar features. There’s only 2 shapes of phone with another 2 sizes. My iPhone test setup is my iPhone 12 max and an old iPhone 6S. If it works on both of those I know I’m good. Developing for android is just much more time consuming. I really don’t know why this is controversial. As you say, Clubhouse are a business and they do want to compete with FB Insta twitter etc. For them going iPhone first must therefore be a rational choice. I’m just trying to explain that choice rationally. If you think this is wrong, what’s your reasoning for them then? Do you think they’re just snooty and letting that get in the way of sound logic?

That's been the traditional way of launching new apps—iPhone development is way easier and iPhone owners are way wealthier.

by eznzt 6y ago

That's been the traditional way of launching new apps—iPhone development is way easier and iPhone owners are way wealthier.

dmingod666 6y ago

How many dozen people exist outside America? I recon atleast 2, 3 if I were generous.. probably only half of those barbarians can read...

jonplackett 6y ago

Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for stating 2 facts. Don’t shoot the messenger.

notsureaboutpg 6y ago
That's not the traditional way of developing apps though, especially not now when cross platform app development is easier than native development on either platform
dmingod666 6y ago
For a service that is free, in what context is it a better thing that it's users have more money? Just sounds like you think rich people are better... Btw, I'm sure you'll be pretty surprised finding out how much current iphone 5 owners make a year..
- jonplackett 6y ago
  It will have to make money somehow won’t it. It will either need to do advertising or get people to pay. Getting people to pay is easier if they have more money. Getting well-paying advertisers is also easier if your audience has more money. The main thing I was commenting on though was iPhone being much easier to develop for. This is indisputable.
  - dmingod666 6y ago
    WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter these are the general social media platforms that Clubhouse comes in the category of. How many of them would rather be better off with only rich users and iPhone users? 'social media' app clones are available for a few hundred bucks with all features.. the billions valuations of these companies doesn't come from technology, it comes from user reach and numbers.. for social, the app with the bigger userbase takes all.. unless it's marketed specifical for a niche sector.. Iphone being easier to develop for is indisputable. Lolz! Lots of "poor guys", a lot of them with money, in this world that look at apple and think overpriced hardware... Can you develop for android on mac? Yes. Can you develop for android on Linux, yes, windows yes. Can you use a common language that is very easy to find devs for, yes. To make an iphone app, You need a mac laptop and a paid developer account. Unlike java, swift is barely used for anything else than apple products, so devs for apple products are more expensive. I mean, agree personal views and preferences may determine peoples choices and in many ways the apple store experience is much better than android, but "indisputable" is stretching the meaning of the word too far.
    - jonplackett 6y ago
      Instagram launched iPhone only and was iPhone only for 2 years We’re not talking about long term - this is just about when you’re doing the bare minimum to get going, as all startups must. You can launch a successful app iPhone only. You can’t launch a successful app android only (happy to be enlightened if you can prove me wrong with an example). Startups only have limited development resources. So what do you do? Many decide to do iPhone only - in the beginning You’re missing the point about iPhone being easier to develop for. Yeah anyone is free to develop android, but the android ecosystem is a mess. So many versions of android with varying features and so many phones to test on. Some stuck on decade older software. Whereas on iOS 90% of people are on the latest OS and 99% are only 1 or 2 steps behind with VERY similar features. There’s only 2 shapes of phone with another 2 sizes. My iPhone test setup is my iPhone 12 max and an old iPhone 6S. If it works on both of those I know I’m good. Developing for android is just much more time consuming. I really don’t know why this is controversial. As you say, Clubhouse are a business and they do want to compete with FB Insta twitter etc. For them going iPhone first must therefore be a rational choice. I’m just trying to explain that choice rationally. If you think this is wrong, what’s your reasoning for them then? Do you think they’re just snooty and letting that get in the way of sound logic?