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App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says (sfgate.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, Apple's App Store, the place where people download apps for games and social networking services on their iPhones, has generated far more revenue worldwide than its Android competitors. This year, things are changing: The App Store will fall second to the amount of revenue generated by Android app distributors, predicts analytics firm App Annie. In 2017, the App Store will generate $40 billion in revenue, while Android app stores run by Google and other parties will generate $41 billion, App Annie said. That gap is expected to widen in 2021, with Android app stores generating $78 billion in revenue and Apple's App Store at $60 billion in revenue, according to App Annie's report released on Wednesday. The surge in revenue for Android comes from a growing number of consumers in China who are buying Android phones and are willing to pay for apps. In 2021, App Annie expects there to be eight Android smartphone users to every single iPhone user in China.
You mean all the android app stores combined will beat the singular Apple AppStore. Does that include amazon?
Most of the Android sales are probably malware or poorly supported apps that don't work nearly as well as their iOS counterparts. Most Android apps are garbage.
Give that most commentator and analysts struggle to even get yesterday right, how the hell do they think their predictions 4 years in the future are going to be anywhere close.
I am STILL waiting for Apple to go broke because they did not put Flash on the iPhone.
First it was number of apps. Then that fell. Then it was app quality. Then that fell too. Then it was revenue generated. Now that has fallen as well.
What will Apple fanbois do?
My next phone will be android since they can still be rooted. iphones are becoming irrelevant to me. My 5s is still jailbroken with ios 8.3, and I have no desire to muck about with the Yalu/mach_portal mess. No thanks. A lot of people like the iphone, myself included. But I can't do what I want to with it anymore. I wonder how many people feel the same way I do? I lot, I would think.
You'll know that Apple has lost when they start suing people more than releasing products. Or at least that's the typical sign.
I've never jail broken my iPhones but the phone is no longer doing it for me anymore. It's too restrictive and Apple's "we know best" mentality for everything is just driving me nuts. Their iCloud mail is SO SLOW to check for new messages, too. I think I'll ditch that and go to Gmail or something, too.
Not likely - in fact, it's likely to go the other way around. It turns out a MAJOR reason to jailbreak was to pirate apps, and well, Android still lets you do it (which is why Android malware is generally quite virulent - people will give up their entire phone's data to save 99 cents).
The real interesting fact is that after all these years of Android outselling iOS by 4:1 or more, the app store revenue will finally be equal. Either Android users pirate a lot (which they do - the piracy rate is comparable to that of the PC - around 90%), or they don't buy apps. Google can activate a billion devices in a year and despite all those phones, developers still don't make as much money.
Yeah jailbreaking. That thing that only a fraction of a single percent of iPhone owners do.
Last nail in the coffin for Apple... now Donald Trump owns one.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Apple locks down its tablets and phones. To do anything useful with them requires you to use an "app" from their store. Other brands of phones and tablets are much more flexible in this respect. So yeah, Apple has restricted the ability of their customers to fully utilize their own hardware without a need to purchase some kind of "shim".
You're an idiot if you think you need to jailbreak a device to pirate apps. Also, idiot, what major OEM allows you to root? The stupid shit idiots say...
The surge in revenue for Android comes from a growing number of consumers in China who are buying Android phones and are getting ads from free malware apps.
FTFY
I thought only iOS users paid for apps!
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
You're fucking awful at it. Get someone else to have a go.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
As the OP, apparently I didn't make myself clear: I want to be able to tweak notifications, move parts of my vast music library to and from the iphone whenever I want to without wrestling with itunes (a lot of my music I got elsewhere besides itunes), disable the loud "DING!" when I plug in to charge the phone; I could go on and on. Without jailbreaking, I have control over almost none of these things and only some with ugly workarounds. Without jailbreaking, I'm locked into Apple's Walled Garden. If I connect my unjailbroken iphone to my computer through USB, I can only copy photos from the phone. Other things I can copy through excructiatingly slow Airdrop. No thanks. And I don't want or need pirated apps, and as someone pointed out you don't need to jailbreak to install pirated apps anyway. I want control over the phone and I know I'm not the only one. But you go right ahead and keep thinking "Apple knows best what I need and jailbreakers are just pirates." Jailbreaking being dead very well may have little influence on Android overtaking Apple, I just threw that out there for discussion. But you went off on an accusation of piracy and got upvoted for it. Whatever.
The bootloader can be unlocked for most non-carrier phones from the likes of Motorola, LG, OnePlus, Nexus, Pixel, Nokia, Blackberry, Xiaomi, and more. Gaining Root is only 1-2 steps away once the bootloader is unlocked.
So you're the fucking annoying person who uses a bright flash in a dark room (board room, bed room, theater ) rather than just a small light. Enjoy being blinded!
Any device with an unlockable bootloader means you can root or jailbreak the device by simply installing the version of the OS on it that includes admin access.
So to answer your question, Google, Samsung, and many others.
Sure you might void your warranty, but they let you do it.
You know what really, really bugs me? That I can't replace my steering wheel with a set of forked handles like I used playing Road Blasters in the arcade when I was 10. I paid for the dang thing; I want CONTROL over it!
Joking aside, you can shut off that plugin beep by just switching your phone to silent mode. Also, you can use an app like PhoneView to copy all kinds of things on and off you phone, including message history and call logs, without jailbreaking.