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This is not a good analogy. McDonald's and Ruth's Chris are not direct competitors, they are targeting completely different markets. Android and iOS are in dire
by DanielStraight 11y ago
This is not a good analogy. McDonald's and Ruth's Chris are not direct competitors, they are targeting completely different markets. Android and iOS are in direct competition.
If we have to use a food analogy, I would propose Starbucks and a competing coffee shop. Almost all the major players in app development make corresponding Android and iOS versions of their apps. Imagine if Twitter or Snapchat only had an iOS or only had an Android app. Similarly, customers expect to have certain things available at all coffee shops, regardless the brand behind them: cappuccinos, flavored syrups, alternative milk choices, etc. So a better analogy would be one coffee shop chain not supplying their stores with espresso machines, or flavored syrups, or alternate milk choices... or maybe just not letting them have refrigerators at all to keep milk cold.
The prevalence of orders for highly-sweetened, cold, milk-based drinks at Starbucks almost certainly means that customers would order the same thing at similarly positioned coffee shops if it was available, and indeed most coffee shops offer such drinks now.
There is no reason to think that somehow Android users are in such a different market that they would have no interest in these apps on Android even though in almost every other case platform parity is expected from large players in the app market.
- patrickaljord 11y ago> This is not a good analogy. I'd say it's a bad analogy because most people who don't live in the US have no idea what Ruth's Chris is.
- megaman22 11y agoNor do most people who do live in the US, I would imagine... I infer that it's a high-end steak joint, but I've never heard of it.
- spacemanmatt 11y agoIt's also a poor analogy because McDonald's is a futures trader with a private hedge (its stores) while Ruth's Chris is a steakhouse.
- Terretta 11y ago> This is not a good analogy. McDonald's and Ruth's Chris are not direct competitors, they are targeting completely different markets. So it was good, because that was my point. > Android and iOS are in direct competition. Citation needed. ;-) But seriously, I don't think they are. Too many observable differences in goals and strategies across each platform for your assertion to be true. > There is no reason to think that somehow Android users are in such a different market that they would have no interest in these apps... On the contrary, there is every reason to think that. Outside a very narrow and limited class of tech geeks who argue on technical merits, the broader market stats point to these being very different segments with different consumer profiles valuing different things.