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Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android
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."
It's all about the fact that casual purchase on iOS takes ... 20 seconds? Casual purchase on Android takes ... 20 minutes? I've timed them.
And sometimes I'm a casual user. Anybody who has any experience on what mobile apps industry used to look like 10 years ago* (and don't be mistaken - there was one and really powerful one) simply cannot ignore the simplicity Apple ecosystem has brought to table.
*Remember Siemens SL45? That little thing with J2ME and MP3...
How's the Microsoft marketing account going? Looks like they're still paying well for all the "First Post" spots as well.
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** Troll alert ** When i see the phrase "Android was first conceived as a Blackberry competitor" I can almost guarantee that Bonch is the poster. The fact that all reasoning leads back to "Because Google is copying Apple blah blah" almost all the time dismisses your arguments to many reason minded individuals here.
The fact is Android was designed to run on multiple platforms. Some with visible keyboards, some with slide-out keyboards, and some with no keyboards. It was not designed for just one set of hardware. It needed to work on cheap phones without GPU acceleration to increase market penetration and to provide a solution to the low-end of the market as well as the high end.