> “You make a beautiful magazine for the iPad, and then you dumb it down for Android’."
and then you read
> "we pick movies from the iTunes store"
So essentially, it was about being lazy in the first place and opting for a close ecosystem.
"To give you some insight in how little uptake we saw on Android here are some statistics: for every Android user that downloads an Android magazine we have 80 iOS downloads."
Which is funny, because it's also possible that the Android/WP users are just going to http://thenextweb.com/magazine/ instead of downloading a dedicated application to provide "movies, sound, interactivity and content"... Last I checked, my web browser is fully capable of providing all of that already.
So it really doesn't seem that you're in a position to be questioning someone else's logic.
They chose to restrict their content to iOS because of laziness; they did not want to look for a cross-platform solution. What do you expect Android users to do when you give them a pale imitation of a product that exists on iOS? Of course they're going to go elsewhere.