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Wouldn't it be ironic if Steve Jobs, during his iPad 2 keynote, drove developers to the Android market by pointing out the low app number for tablets? With just 100 apps for Android tablets, NOW seems like the perfect chance to get your app noticed by being first on the market...
Wouldn't it be ironic if Steve Jobs, during his iPad 2 keynote, drove developers to the Android market by pointing out the low app number for tablets? With just 100 apps for Android tablets, NOW seems like the perfect chance to get your app noticed by being first on the market...
I've never even heard of Pocket Legends before, much less the developer.
And what point are you trying to make? Their game is getting 12-13k downloads per day and has made best-of lists on Mashable and MSNBC; clearly they are well known, even if you are not personally aware of them.
Which of the following scenarios are unlikely? 1. iOS triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 2. Android triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 3. In the big wide world, both iOS and Android do well, appealing to different masses and classes. The developer ecosystem also makes money off both platforms, albeit in different way…
Format wars have sometimes ended up with one winner, and then there's the windows precedent. I think a lot of the polarization comes from fear of one side or the other 'winning' - a fear that isn't entirely baseless.
I don't think anyone can say the world is going to be 90% Android or 90% iOS as far as handhelds are concerned. It is a market that is still opening up and there are at least three distinct pricing segments in it. Plenty of space for the top 2-3 to grow without killing anyone else.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Steve Jobs, during his iPad 2 keynote, drove developers to the Android market by pointing out the low app number for tablets? With just 100 apps for Android tablets, NOW seems like the perfect chance to get your app noticed by being first on the market...
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Format wars have sometimes ended up with one winner, and then there's the windows precedent. I think a lot of the polarization comes from fear of one side or the other 'winning' - a fear that isn't entirely baseless.
Except iOS and Android have the exact same format - large touch screen. The technical differences won't be relevant to 99% of customers, it's the advertising and brand recognition that will make the difference.
Personally, I suspect that Apple has lots of time before Android chokes off the smartphone market, and even longer in the tablet space. But eventually, the commodity-hardware producers are going to do to those devices what Compaq et al did for PCs; Apple will have to decide between marketshare and margin, and I suspect they'll choose margin even if it makes them decreasingly relevant. But by that point maybe they can invent some new niche.
Which of the following scenarios are unlikely? 1. iOS triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 2. Android triumphs everything else as the one mobile OS to rule them all. Everything else dies. 3. In the big wide world, both iOS and Android do well, appealing to different masses and classes. The developer ecosystem also makes money off both platforms, albeit in different way…
I think we can all agree that a substantial number of Android supporters are a bit on the tech/geeky side - commonly presenting device specs and openness as a point of superiority over iOS. I think we also can agree that most MMO players are on the tech/geeky side. Thus, Android's consumer base is particularly well-suited to support a MMO. Regardless, if I have to read one more article about what mobile OS is better,…
It's easy to find vocal examples of these extremes online but smartphones are basically replacing featurephones, very soon everyone will have one. Already the market penetration numbers are so high that I doubt the average iPhone or Android user could be distinguished much from each other, or from non-smartphone users.
1) The game Pocket legends: There might be far superior games on iOS
2) The crowd that owns iPhone is not interested in such an app at all
3)Games of such genre do not perform well on iOS
The point I want to make is that one app developer's one single games data is too small of a sample data to make any serious claims.