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More people use Android phones than iPhones.
Please make more and better apps for the most popular phones, not the most overhyped phones.
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it is fiction
Android is snatching up market share though, and will surpass iOS once people realize how restrictive Apple pos products are. or at least recognize that you can do so much more with an Android
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Truth.
iOS is third!
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ok then
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
More people use Android phones than iPhones.
Maybe on your planet. 
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Truth.
iOS is third!
False.
Those are sales of new units. It is absolutely no surprise that Android is handily outpacing iOS, because it's been on the market for ~5 years already.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
More people use Android phones than iPhones.
Please make more and better apps for the most popular phones, not the most overhyped phones.
Nobody buys apps on Android. IOS is MUCH more profitable to develop for.
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I believe iPhones are better than Android if you want to charge money for your App. 
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I'd rather buy apps on iOS than use Android 
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Apple Q1 2012 filing:
37+ million iPhones sold, 15.5 million iPads, and that's just in the first 3 fiscal months.
App developers target iOS because there's a huge market, and that isn't going away any time soon.
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Koneg posted:
Apple Q1 2012 filing:
37+ million iPhones sold, 15.5 million iPads, and that's just in the first 3 fiscal months.
App developers target iOS because there's a huge market, and that isn't going away any time soon.
Splitting hairs again, are we?
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#smartphone-shipments
Apple is second in handset sales, and #1 and #3 are Android.
mobiThinking reality check on smartphones:
The media tends to overegg the importance of smartphones and Apple in particular. Before media hype lulls you into focusing your marketing/development budget on smartphones or the Apple platform exclusively, consider this: 61.3 percent of handsets sold in 2011 were not smartphones, they were feature phones; 94 percent of all phones sold were not Apple.
4b) Android is the top smartphone operating system in 2011.
Canalys (February 2012): finds that 48.8 percent of smartphones shipped in 2011, shipped with Google’s free Android OS.
• Canalys points out that smartphones now outsell PCs.
• Previously Nokia was the leader in smartphones, until its surprise decision to drop its Symbian OS in 2011.
Did you have any real evidence, metal face, or just your raging ego?
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Damn Apple for being so restrictive with their products that more developers are making apps for it!
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One of the kids my son works with put out like $700 for an iPhone. The kid drives a car he bought for $400 and misses work regularly because his car won't run, but he does have an iPhone.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Did you have any real evidence, metal face, or just your raging ego?
Uh, you just posted evidence supporting what I said.
Yes, Android NEW PHONE SALES outpaces iPhone.
So what?
You're ignoring 5+ years of pre-existing market penetration by Apple. It should be a gawd damn no-brainer that Android sales outpace iPhone - because those inclined to get iPhones already have?
When Android sales catch up to the literally hundreds of millions of iPhones that were sold prior to the introduction of Android, you let me know.
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I will get the device with the biggest array of good games. Right now that is iPhone hands down, but I bet Android blows it away in the long term.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Truth.
iOS is third!
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Koneg posted:
Uh, you just posted evidence supporting what I said.
Yes, Android NEW PHONE SALES outpaces iPhone.
So what?
You're ignoring 5+ years of pre-existing market penetration by Apple. It should be a gawd damn no-brainer that Android sales outpace iPhone - because those inclined to get iPhones already have?
When Android sales catch up to the literally hundreds of millions of iPhones that were sold prior to the introduction of Android, you let me know.
Huh. Impressive for Apple, according to you.
The first iPhones were released around the beginning of 2007. Android version 1 was released in September 08. Apple sold "hundreds of millions" of iPhones in that time?
Equally impressive, those "hundreds of millions" sold, since as of July 2011, Apple sold in the neighbourhood of 75 million iPhones. The biggest number of iOS devices sold was in the neighbourhood of 200 million. This includes the iPod Touch and the iPads.
You should really get that ego checked, Koneg. It's weighing you down.
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Apple is great because there would never be android without apple.
In the long run apple's competition will copy apple's work and beat it because there are more people working on android type stuff. Apple still creates a very competitive product despite the limitations they create for themselves.
Apple is not just a great company for those using apple products but those using the products that are in a market that apple is in. Competition is very important and apple brings it.
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monetization of apps is higher on iphones. people are used to paying for things via itunes (mp3s, etc). so for whatever reason they're happier to fork over some dough for apps there. android users tend to be cheapasses.
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the biggest problem with developing for Android is fragmentation - how many different variations of android do you have to account for? what's your minimum spec to be able to sell at the same number of iOS users?
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iOS users have proved they love to spend money on shiny gadgets. They are the perfect audience for App Developers.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Equally impressive, those "hundreds of millions" sold, since as of July 2011, Apple sold in the neighbourhood of 75 million iPhones. The biggest number of iOS devices sold was in the neighbourhood of 200 million. This includes the iPod Touch and the iPads.
iPhones alone have sold more than 190 million units since release.
The whole of the iOS family (you know, the dohicky app developers code for?) combined is rapidly approaching 300 million units sold.
This is why I wrote "hundreds of millions"... because that's how many they've sold you dimbulb.
I am no Apple fan - but trying to claim that Android has the majority of the market based solely upon new unit sales is just ridiculous.
Should app developers write for Android? Certainly. There's money there. Should they focus on Android over Apple devices?
No.
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Bjorvald posted:
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More people use Android phones than iPhones.
Please make more and better apps for the most popular phones, not the most overhyped phones.
Nobody buys apps on Android. IOS is MUCH more profitable to develop for.
This. Even if android had 2x as many people, why wouldn't you target the group who've proven they'll queue out in the rain to buy ridiculously overpriced hardware because it's the "cool" thing to do? Those people are walking money mints.
Apple fanbois spend money like drunken sailors. They're a great audience to target.
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I'd rather not make apps for either of those shit platforms
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