“Developers will finally start focusing on Android first instead of iOS in the next half a year, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said in his presentation at the Le Web conference Friday,” Electronista reports.
“When asked by an Android user frustrated that developers still preferred the iPad and iPhone, Schmidt expected Android 4.0 to reverse that tren,” Electronista reports. “‘My prediction is that six months from now you’ll say the opposite,’ CNET quoted him as saying.”
Electronista reports, “Schmidt’s position still sidesteps issues that have kept developers either developing for iOS first or exclusively. Developers have complained of a bias towards free and pirated apps on Android, giving them no incentive to offer paid apps.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Developers with even a modicum of business acumen know that iOS users have money and the will to spend it. Apple iOS users buy 61% more apps and pay 14% more per app. After all, we didn’t get our iPhones because of unending Buy One Get One (or More) Free promotions designed to pump up market share numbers.
The derivative Android platform can load up on ignorant developers until the cows come home; it won’t make their app library any better, only fill it with even more crap apps that nobody will buy and more free crap apps running ads targeted at a demographic that’s widely known to be cheap. Our advice to developers porting their iOS apps to Android: Make them free and load them up with plenty of dollar store ads.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Hmmm, spend the time making one app that will run on ios and make more than double the profit from it. Or spend time making tens of different versions of the same app and make nothing.
Yeah coz every developer wants to make tens of different versions of the same app so that it’ll run on the massively fragmented Android OS for $0 return.
MDN, a suggestion. As it is so common in electronic communication to abbreviate as much as possible, why not dispense with “crap apps” and just start calling them “crapps”.
“Developers will finally start focusing on Android first instead of iOS in the next half a year”. Yeah, I heard it snowed in hell yesterday too!!
The guy has his head firmly up his ass.
What drug is the Schmidt mole on this time?
PLEASE iCal this MDN! I’ll look forward to the well deserved diabolical laughter at this dope head in June, 2012. 😆
“When asked by an Android user frustrated that developers still preferred the iPad and iPhone, Schmidt expected Android 4.0 to reverse that tren,”
Yup. Same old promise “Just wait for our next version, it will be better! We Promise!” How microsoftian of Eric……