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Actually that shows a big opportunity exists for startups in Android space. Clearly the startup world is not where the customers are due to various reasons.

Go where the customers are, observe what they are doing and make something they can use.

I truly see a big opportunity. Launching at startup events is wrong unless your customers are them.

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Sure, but potential partners and investors want to use your product and try it out. If you have Android-first the only thing you can do is you lend them an Android phone. And then you get 80% feedback on general Android topics and they boot the phone just to try the app and can't determine all its implementation and integration potential.

Exactly. What he says is why most apps on Android look and feel like afterthoughts compared to their iPhone counterparts. That is opportunity.

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