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Still Trying To Decide Whether To Build an iPhone Or Android App? Look At These Stats

image from static02.mediaite.com iPhone apps are all the rage, but Apple's lead over Android will disappear by the end July. In the chart below, ou can see the gap between Android and iPhone closing to by the end of July, according to Business Insider. The Chart:

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Bruce Houghton on 04/28/2011 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (12)
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  1. I recon in six months if we look back on this graph it will be shown to be inaccurate. The iPad projections don’t match the projections for a quadrupling of iPads I’ve seen somewhere else in the next year or two so I’m not convinced things are flattening out as this suggests for the iPhone either. I could be wrong..

  2. I recon in six months if we look back on this graph it will be shown to be inaccurate. The iPad projections don’t match the projections for a quadrupling of iPads I’ve seen somewhere else in the next year or two so I’m not convinced things are flattening out as this suggests for the iPhone either. I could be wrong..

  3. Sales charts don’t make users pay for apps or content, and that’s not happening on the android platform in the near future. Sales charts don’t write core libraries for handling audio recording and signal processing. Sales charts are not written by developers who need to make a living…
    Oh yeah, then there’s the fact that I have to compile for many different mixes of device/android version… I’ll keep giving apple my 30% for now, in exchange for my developer revenue that doesn’t exist on the other platform…

  4. I don’t think it’s a matter of choosing between Android or iOS. Rather, what this chart clearly shows is that Android and iOS are both kicking serious ass and neither can be ignored by developers.
    With that being said, if you’re planning on selling your app, I agree with @Jlynch3 in that iOS apps sell better, based on what we’re seeing at MobBase.

  5. This post by Marco Arment, who created the wonderful Instapaper app, on why he is not going to offer the free app anymore is an interesting read.
    http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free
    This aside seems relevant:
    “I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?
    (This is also a major reason why I have no plans to enter the Android market.)”

  6. Question, when it comes to music apps, with both iOS and Android platforms making it more difficult to join their app stores, is it a smart choice to join one of the lesser active systems?

  8. Market share does not equal income for the developers.
    The iOS app store is years ahead of Android and the sales number reflect such. Right now, Android phones are selling because they’re cheaper. They’re the low-end Dells to Apple’s Macs… And their average customer’s spending habits will reflect as much in regards to app sales.

  9. Definitely not – if you’re making a music app, it absolutely needs to be on iOS and Android, and I wouldn’t spend any money developing the app for other platforms. These platforms are growing increasingly irrelevant each week, and spending your development dollars on the two major platforms will give you a much bigger bang for your buck.
    How has Android made it more difficult to join? We haven’t seen this over at MobBase.com

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