A giant market with a single gatekeeper.
Does anyone have thoughts on alternative app stores like Google Play or Amazon? The markets are obviously much smaller, but there's also much less competition.
Does anyone have thoughts on alternative app stores like Google Play or Amazon? The markets are obviously much smaller, but there's also much less competition.
I wrote a simple Word Search app a couple months ago, localized it, and have had zero downloads outside the US and Canada.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4labs-word-search/id1311744...
In 2010, I whipped up a quick little language app on Android and saw several thousand global downloads within a month( there were about 10,000 apps at the time).
I know it doesn't really help, but Apple has started to remove old, abandoned apps.
So, just because the company is large, doesn’t mean an AI is writing the software. The large company developers make money on iOS, as a steady paycheck instead of a fingernail biter.
Given comparison between film and iOS industries, it’s a little like working for Peter Jackson and Weta Digital instead of hoping to pull of the next Alive in Joburg at home.
If you're defining the potential of a market by the amount of money the population of people are putting into it, then no, not so much.
(I tend to go for the latter definition, personally)
Also comparing marketshare does not paint the whole picture.
iOS phones tend to be costlier than Android ones. It would be probably better to compare their sales for similarly priced phones.
IIRC (and I have got to say I have not looked at these stats in a while), costly Android phones sell a bit more than iOS ones, but are small fraction of these 85%
for reference: https://www.walmart.com/browse/cell-phones/straight-talk-cel...