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Not for long if their market share keeps slipping. Alienating developers doesn't help the situation.
by aceperry 12y ago
Not for long if their market share keeps slipping. Alienating developers doesn't help the situation.
- cheald 12y agoTo put some numbers on it, according to this research (http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-market-q1-2014/ http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-market-q1-2014/), relative app revenue numbers have been something like: Q2 2013: Apple +230% Q3 2013: Apple +210% Q4 2013: Apple +110% Q1 2014: Apple +85% Android's market share (especially in emerging markets) is exploding (https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.appannie.com/reports/App+Annie+Special+Report+Google+Play+2014.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.appannie.com/reports/App+Anni...), while Apple's app store revenue are substantially flatter (http://images.apple.com/nl/pr/pdf/q2fy14datasum.pdf http://images.apple.com/nl/pr/pdf/q2fy14datasum.pdf). Apple's definitely on top right now, but the gap is narrowing very, very quickly.