[Cialug] iPhone vs Android

[Dave Weis]

It's probably simpler and less sinister. There's only so much time and
resources available to write software.


On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:45 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> The simplest answer is that the C-levels at Gannett all have iPhones in
> their pockets.
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It has long boggled my mind why it seems so common for some organization
> to
> > produce a phone app for iPhone but not Android. Close to home, the
> biggest
> > offender is the Des Moines Register. They made an app for iOS for
> RAGBRAI,
> > but not for Android, and the same for a new "things to do in Des Moines"
> > app. They promised an Android version Real Soon Now, but we're still
> > waiting.
> >
> > What is so hard about making an app for Android? You'd think the least
> they
> > could do is write the thing in HTML5 and show a mobile website on both
> > platforms.
> >
> > Android phones clearly outnumber iPhones in the U.S. and worldwide, and
> > it's not like Des Moines Register's audience (or the audience of any of
> the
> > other apps I've seen do this) are iPhone heavy. Why would a company limit
> > themselves by deliberately rolling out to a smaller audience and then
> > waiting years to go to Android? (Or never going, for some of them.)
> >
> > I thought it might be that iPhone is where the money is. But there's info
> > on that here:
> >
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/its-an-app-world/march-2015-iphone-vs-android-monetization-capabilities-you-won-t-believe-who-won-7a02fde2dc2
> >
> > # of phones worldwide:
> > iPhone: 600,000,000
> > Android: 1,700,000,000
> >
> > Yearly Downloads:
> > iPhone: 22,000,000,000
> > Android: 51,000,000,000
> >
> > In App Purchase Revenue:
> > iPhone: $10,000,000,000
> > Android: $6,000,000,000
> >
> > In App Ad Impressions:
> > iPhone: 580,000,000,000
> > Android: 1,210,000,000,000
> >
> > Ad Revenue:
> > iPhone: $3,300,000,000
> > Android: $4,500,000,000
> >
> > That doesn't look like a clear case for iPhone being the money maker,
> > especially in the case of the Register, being driven by ads.
> >
> > Anyone have any insight? What's so special about iPhone that so many
> people
> > choose to distribute there, and not on Android?
> >
> > --
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