TL:DR
A lot of poor people use android , poor people don't spend a lot and don't click many ads.Therefore Android is doomed.
A lot of poor people use android , poor people don't spend a lot and don't click many ads.Therefore Android is doomed.
edit: For those down voting, could you please quote the part of the article that implies this: " A lot of poor people use android , poor people don't spend a lot and don't click many ads.Therefore Android is doomed."
it actually contradicts the parent comment: " For years, Android apps were a backwater, but sales have lately picked up."
"In 2014, Google Play sold about $10 billion in apps, of which Google kept about $3 billion (the rest was paid out to developers). "
"Google’s app revenue is becoming an increasingly meaningful piece of its overall business, and it is also growing rapidly."
Yes, as the #1 low-cost solution you're going to have users you don't make a return from, but you have enough users that as a sum you make returns. Android's strategy isn't to maximize returns from each user.
It's a subjective article and doesn't really provide anything insightful beyond FUD of the future.
Android's strategy isn't to maximize returns from each user, not Google. It's all market driven. Google is trying to maximize returns for each AdWords user, for example.
App developers all have their own markets and their own strategies which are mostly irrelevant here.