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What would be interesting to see is how that 68% is sliced. How much of that % has access to the official Google Marketplace, How much of that % are non Google
by spiralpolitik 14y ago
What would be interesting to see is how that 68% is sliced. How much of that % has access to the official Google Marketplace, How much of that % are non Google approved phones etc. Those numbers give would give developers a better sense of what the potential market size is like, and help identify gaps in the market.
The Android share is somewhat like the DOS market at the beginning of the nineties. While DOS commanded a sizable share verses Mac OS, it was broken down into 3 variants (MSDOS, DRDOS, PCDOS) with sub versions (MSDOS 5, DRDOS 6 etc). While they were mostly compatible they had enough differences to cause developers headaches.
- diminish 14y agowhat would really be interesting to see is how much of ios browsing comes from ipads; cause iphone screen is quite small to do anything; forget browsing
- bobbles 14y agoA lot of the browsing that I do from my iPhone is via either the AlienBlue reddit app or viewing HackerNews through the Pulse app. As they strip everything out of the web-pages except the text content (most of the time) it makes reading stuff on the web pretty decent.
- DonnyV 14y agoYes but how did MSDOS at the end of the game make out? .....yes market share matters.
- spiralpolitik 14y agoMSDOS technically won out because Microsoft married Windows and MSDOS together to get Windows 95 killing off the other DOS variants (and the alternative Windows shells like Norton) in the process. Also remember that Apple's reward for losing was ending up the most profitable PC vendor so things didn't end up so bad for them.
- pjmlp 14y agoAnd the way this is going, similarly to how Apple lost the market share to DOS, the same will happen with Android.