Isn't software development about making money? On phones, if you want to make money you have to target iOS, since this is where you have the people with money to spend on software. Do you believe that the vastly larger installed base of Windows guarantees more money for everyone?
At a previous workplace, we released certain software targeted at media/videography professionals for macOS first. The immediate response at conferences was, 'do you have a Windows version? We all use Windows.' Once we ported our software to Windows, the uptake was easily 1.5 orders of magnitude greater than for macOS.
The era of 'macOS is a better media computer' is long gone.
>On phones, if you want to make money you have to target iOS
It's funny that you think Android users are broke-ass nobodies. That's some reality-distortion-field fanboi nonsense. And it's also hilarious that you think phone apps are useful software that costs lots of money.
Most people in tech with high-paying jobs that I know are using Android, because it's actually pretty awesome compared to the locked-down walled-garden that is Apple. More than half my friends use Android or Windows. They use Android because it isn't as locked-down as iPhone. They use Windows because it runs all the software they want it to run. We also really don't care about Apple's blue bubbles.
No, Apple users are not the only ones with jobs. Plenty of Android users have plenty of disposable income. It's a ridiculous argument to make that Apple users have more money to spend.
>Do you believe that the vastly larger installed base of Windows guarantees more money for everyone?
I don't have to believe it, the market believes it. People vote with their dollars, and they aren't voting for Apple all that often worldwide. Plenty of wealthy people use Android and Windows. I'd wager that most big companies are still run on Windows - and I know this experientially, from back in the day setting up computers for major corps, it was 85% Windows, 15% Apple. Always was, always will be.
Way to go with anecdata to try and disentangle your feelings from reality. Come back when you have cold hard facts. With 27% of the market, they make twice as much money on their app store.
Making money does not equate to popularity. It only means their users are suckers for overpaying. $1000 for a monitor stand? $700 for 4 tiny wheels? Yet people pay these absurd prices for their niche over-hyped and over-priced hardware. "A fool and their money are soon parted."
Then how do you square that Apple has a billion worldwide users? They're all fools? Everybody who bought an iPhone is an idiot? There's no way an 900$ iPhone is a good purchase when the equivalent device that Samsung advertises as a competitor is over a thousand bucks?
You lost my interest when you suggested that iPhone was the platform to target because those users have all the money to spend. This pointless internet interaction is over.
