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iOS Is For Revenue, Android is For Ads

17 points by kunle 13y ago

corresation 13y ago
Simply horrible noise. I would love HN provided a way for one to click "forever more ignore the votes of everyone who voted this nonsense up" for such prattle. This particular article (not by Forbes, it should be mentioned. This is yet another contributor article, which is effectively the everyman blog platform that Forbes uses to piss all of their credibility away, yet it is surprisingly effective at getting to the front page of HN) is a sea of link farming, and is one of the most egregious example I've yet seen (many of the seeming citations go to absolutely nothing of the sort. It is just dozens of links to Hipmob). Oh but iOS users buy more tea, so there's that. What?
- jared314 13y ago
  On a meta note: Do duplicate submissions count as an upvote anymore?
- kunle 13y ago
  Hey there - OP here. Sorry you feel this way. I spend several hours a week talking to our customers and interviewing the people who run mobile for large retailers, as well as mobile startup founders. The opinion I stated is definitely mine, and it's a logical conclusion based on the data gleaned from my interviews and informal/off the record conversations with people whose business it is to sell real products (hotel rooms, shoes, shirts) every single day via mobile apps. People simply don't transact on Android - thats not an opinion. That's data. Happy to discuss more/share more off the record if it suits you, and if you know someone who is successfully selling products to Android customers, I'd love to talk to them because they know a secret that literally every ecommerce company in America is DYING to know. As to the dozens of links to Hipmob - that's where we publish our interviews and it's the original source of our content. Believe me, if we could publish elsewhere, we would, but its the sort of content that only customers/potential customers of ours find interesting, and as such we make it available to them on our blog. Hope that helps explain things.
normloman 13y ago
Should be renamed "iOS Is For Rich People, Android Is For The Poor."
- kunle 13y ago
  I pondered this, but I don't think it's that simple. Economic demographics are a part of the story, but I think the underlying architecture of each really is a lot of the difference. By the time you activate your iPhone for the first time, you've already given your credit card to Apple. Most users of Google products, by contrast, do not ever give Google their payment information.

17 points by kunle 13y ago

Simply horrible noise. I would love HN provided a way for one to click "forever more ignore the votes of everyone who voted this nonsense up" for such prattle. This particular article (not by Forbes, it should be mentioned. This is yet another contributor article, which is effectively the everyman blog platform that Forbes uses to piss all of their credibility away, yet it is surprisingly effective at getting to the front page of HN) is a sea of link farming, and is one of the most egregious example I've yet seen (many of the seeming citations go to absolutely nothing of the sort. It is just dozens of links to Hipmob). Oh but iOS users buy more tea, so there's that. What?

jared314 13y ago
On a meta note: Do duplicate submissions count as an upvote anymore?
kunle 13y ago
Hey there - OP here. Sorry you feel this way. I spend several hours a week talking to our customers and interviewing the people who run mobile for large retailers, as well as mobile startup founders. The opinion I stated is definitely mine, and it's a logical conclusion based on the data gleaned from my interviews and informal/off the record conversations with people whose business it is to sell real products (hotel rooms, shoes, shirts) every single day via mobile apps. People simply don't transact on Android - thats not an opinion. That's data. Happy to discuss more/share more off the record if it suits you, and if you know someone who is successfully selling products to Android customers, I'd love to talk to them because they know a secret that literally every ecommerce company in America is DYING to know. As to the dozens of links to Hipmob - that's where we publish our interviews and it's the original source of our content. Believe me, if we could publish elsewhere, we would, but its the sort of content that only customers/potential customers of ours find interesting, and as such we make it available to them on our blog. Hope that helps explain things.

normloman 13y ago

Should be renamed "iOS Is For Rich People, Android Is For The Poor."

kunle 13y ago
I pondered this, but I don't think it's that simple. Economic demographics are a part of the story, but I think the underlying architecture of each really is a lot of the difference. By the time you activate your iPhone for the first time, you've already given your credit card to Apple. Most users of Google products, by contrast, do not ever give Google their payment information.