Let me be clear about where I'm coming from by stating my (extremely unpopular) opinion of Apple here: My view is that Apple is a hybrid marketing/hardware comp

Let me be clear about where I'm coming from by stating my (extremely unpopular) opinion of Apple here: My view is that Apple is a hybrid marketing/hardware company that sells a kind of tech faux haut couture. I'm not a fan of Apple. That being said, I absolutely will deploy to iOS before Android, because that is where the market and money is. Android markets to a broad swath of people, a huge of segment of which consists of lower socioeconomic classes, and the conversion rate for purchases is lower (my experience) for the same effort (I actually find developing for Android to be slightly easier than iOS, in spite of the unfortunate choice of Java as the language, but the fragmentation issues others might throw at you by way of countering your argument are largely irrelevant for the kinds of apps I'm interested in producing). Apple product users are generally in a higher socioeconomic class and generally are more willing to part with their dollar. It just makes business sense to target that first to get revenue, then target Android to extract value.