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Android is a tiny market

• OJFord 1y ago
  You probably mean 'in the US', where iOS is 58%. Android has a 71% global market share.
  • wahnfrieden 1y ago
    No. Why do user counts matter? High user count but with >4x thriftiness / aversion to spending is not an attractive market over iOS. Globally in dollars spent, not human heads. iOS is over 2x larger than Android globally, and the gap is widening year over year. iOS spending growth outpaces Android, which even shrunk during covid while iOS spending continued to grow https://api.backlinko.com/app/uploads/2024/03/iphone-vs-android-app-spending-1440x1094.webp https://api.backlinko.com/app/uploads/2024/03/iphone-vs-andr... Anthropic makes money off product sales, not ad revenue, so wallets count more than eyes for this. Free users who are less than 25% as likely to spend are a burden not to be prioritized for a product business with free tier access. They need to spend much more to get a paying user on Android. If Android were the bigger market, they'd prioritize it
  • bdcravens 1y ago
    Yes, if all you consider are the number of devices in use. However once you segment by devices with performance to run a given app and financial demographics that match your target customer, the numbers change.