So you mean iPhone first, which narrows your market even further.
The hard question is whether to launch on the web or mobile first. Once you've decided on mobile first, choosing iPhone first is a fairly obvious choice.
There is a reason companies are going iPhone first.
An alternate explanation to yours is that companies are going iPhone first because it's trendy. We all know about the SV echo chamber. Following trends seems to fit the data just as well as your hypothesis.