Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 15, 2011 @10:02AM from the addictive-chemicals-are-my-theory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google Chariman Eric Schmidt recently addressed an Android user lamenting the fact that that mobile apps are often released on Apple's iOS platform well before they finally reach Android. Schmidt cooly and curiously explained that this dynamic will change in just 6 months. Here's why he's wrong. Though Google brags about the total number of Android users, developers care about certain kinds of users (those that pay for apps). A similar dynamic can be found in television advertising, where advertisers will more money for ad spots on less popular shows in order to reach desirable demographics, even though other programs may have many millions of more viewers."

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Re:Android has many problems by BasilBrush · 2011-12-15 11:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't know where you stand on the link. So my comment is on the link itself.
The linked article plays on a "class warfare" division between iPhone and Android. Yet I notice that the 32GB Galaxy Nexus, just launched, is $299 with a contract, the same price as the 32GB iPhone 4S, and $100 more expensive than the 16GB iPhone 4S. This isn't a class difference, it's a quality difference.