Mobile Marketshare
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- Boz0
I always said.. developers should develop for Android first..
the more you get established and more you publish beautiful looking apps the more money you will make on Android because there's so much more space there and a chance to really stand out not to mention that the market is so much bigger and will pretty much own everything in the next 10 years including appliances and shit in our homes too..and I'm talking about app stores beyond Android marketplace. Samsung just showed new types of refrigerators utilizing Android and the NFC support is undoubtably coming that will allow us to pass by our fridge and it will sync the missing groceries to our phones etc..
The amount of money generated by Android in the next 2-3 years will be simply incomparable to any other platform, not to mention very very tight integration with web apps too and mobile web in-app purchasing and seamless integration between web and Android devices.
Let's just remember what happened with Windows and those developers who built great software on Windows platform as it was growing.. they all became multi-billion dollar companies.
If people are building apps for iOS first and not Android, they are doing it wrong! Everyone should build for Android first because it's the smart long term strategy that will pay off in spades in next 2-3 years. Once you have the main stuff built for Android you can start porting it to iOS, simply because you will be able to take your mainstream mobile OS platform features and tailor them to iOS.. If you started with iOS there are things that simply tie you to iOS and how Apple wants you to do it and it severely limits your capability of going wide in terms of platforms.