Do Android users buy even a tenth of the apps that iOS users do? If simply having the greatest number of handsets in circulation supporting a particular platform equalled victory, Java-based feature phones or Symbian handsets would have trounced the iPhone years ago.
Do Android users buy even a tenth of the apps that iOS users do?
Probably not yet.
I'd blame this mostly on the low number of "killer" apps in the android market.
Many good apps have arrived, but the number is nowhere near the appstore, yet.
Here's the kicker, though: This will inevitably change. It is already changing. When you compare the android market today versus a few months ago then you'll notice quite a number of high-profile apps have appeared.
As a developer you can't ignore android anymore. You're not building an iPhone app nowadays, you're building an iPhone app and an android app.
And it won't be long before the priorities reverse.
Once android devices outnumber iPhones by 10:1 the question will be whether you build an iPhone app along with your Android app - not the other way round.
Remember Apple is at its absolute peak today. There's nowhere to go from here in terms of features or polish.
Sure, they can add voice recognition, brush up the hardware even more and perhaps they'll even find another killer-feature or two to add. But HTC and Google are breathing in their neck now, the gap in user experience is closing. From there the primary differentiating factor becomes price. And competing with HTC on price will be tough[1].
Remember Apple is at its absolute peak today. There's nowhere to go from here in terms of features or polish.
Sure, they can add voice recognition, brush up the hardware even more and perhaps they'll even find another killer-feature or two to add.
There's nowhere to go in features or polish unless they add more features or polish more - what kind of argument is that?
From there the primary differentiating factor becomes price.
Because Apple have always been driven out of markets by competitors with lower prices...
