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So how's the Android version doing? Please tell me there is one. Because complaining about the walled garden and then ignoring the larger and more open platform, that's rather silly.


Larger? It's not that easy. There is more Android smartphones sold than Apple phones yep, but 1. thanks to telcos a lot of Android users don't even know what is Android/Google Play (= they'll never download apps) and 2. global app store revenues are still higher on iOS versus Google Play.


The downloads stat is no longer true[1]. Revenue is still much higher on iOS, but the trends have been clear, and cannot be ignored. Before, it was "Android is open, but there are way more iPhones", then it was "Android has more phones but iPhones get more downloads", it won't be long until revenue surpases it too.

[1] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/07/31/google-play-passes-app...

EDIT: More stats on revenue:

In nov 2012 the gap was 4x

http://www.startable.com/2012/11/

As of Q3 2013 the gap was 2x

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-11-03-google-play...

They're catching up, and fast.


Plus that ignores ad revenue, more Android apps are ad supported


But this was a free app, wasn't it? That would make the revenue aspect fairly irrelevant.


and if it's just webviews it's not like it would be hard to port... it's probably written in something like appcelerator anyway.

... ok back to my walled garden




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