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Android had market-share, but will you get paying customers? Every article I've ever read on the subject is that iOS customers are far more willing to pay for
by Firehed 14y ago
Android had market-share, but will you get paying customers? Every article I've ever read on the subject is that iOS customers are far more willing to pay for apps than android users.
Of course, if you're making a companion app for some other service which makes money it's largely irrelevant, but numbers alone don't tell the whole story.
- cageface 14y agoI don't care about paying customers. Hardly anybody makes real money from app sales now. My apps are really just a portfolio. I make my money doing freelance dev for other people and I charge the same rate for Android as iOS.
- potatolicious 14y ago> "Android had market-share, but will you get paying customers?" The age of direct app sales being profitable enough to float a startup are long over. iOS users are still massively outspending Android users, but overall profitability has sunk like a brick on both platforms over time. Like you said, "companion apps" and games are pretty much the only viable routes now. Direct app sales at this point in the market's lifetime is a great way to make a modest pittance and then be committed to support forever.