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This has been my argument. If users want more open and developers want more freedom, Android is there. It wouldn't take many developers to pull out before Apple

• freedomben 3y ago
  This actually strengthens the argument about Apple being monopolistic IMHO. Clearly developers do want more freedom, and clearly they are still developing for iOS. As a developer you don't really have a choice. If you go exclusive to Android, you're missing a major, major piece of the market. I've been working in startups for 10 or so years now and every single one I've been at we had to support iOS because their market share is so high. There is no choice and no way around it for developers. You can really see these mechanisms in action in open source where making a profit and other market forces aren't at play, so developers are able to choose based on what they want. There are tons of open source apps for Android, and many many fewer for iOS. Android tends to get most open source first, with an iOS port coming later.