steady readers of the Macalope will know that Android is “ gain ™ ” the smartphone war ( genuine winning not include ) , but now we have more trial impression of just how spectacular the ultra - mega - win is .
App Developers Bet on iOS over Android this Holiday Season
Yes , for yet another yr , more developers are starting iOS apps than Android apps . Do n’t tell Henry Blodget . The Macalope would hate to disturb him heading into the holidays .
( Haha , just pull the leg of . All he manage about is page view . )
Besides , the Macalope ’s certain this will wrench around in the next six months .
But , still , how could it be that developers favor iOS to Android , what with all the very obvious winning ?
be given the numbers , we find that , on average , for every $ 1.00 generated on iOS , the same app will mother $ 0.24 on Android .
Well , yes , but on the other hand , does n’t making all the money make iOS developers feel dirty ? How do they log Z’s at night ? ( “ On a bed of $ 100 bills , ” one developer enjoin . ) At least Android developers can halt their head up because they know they ’re not in it for the money .
See , that ’s the trouble with these studies . They never take the intangible into consideration . Like , say you ’re a developer who ’s recently renounce material good . Except your computer and your telephone set . Android ’s intelligibly the skilful platform , or you ’d just start gather corporeal trade good again .
Anyway , you might be surprised to learn which gravid company headquartered in the Pacific Northwest — and which used to be important in engineering science — is one of these developer choosing iOS .
The Macalope ’s been giving Microsoft a hard metre , well , forever . ( And , let ’s face it , with a top dog like this it ’s not like he ’s ever going to stop . ) But while he joke about the company bask its retirement , it turns out you really can learn an old dog raw tricks .
Microsoft looks like amply hug iOS with a slew of novel apps let in SkyDrive , Xbox Live , OneNote for iPad , and even an iOS app version of Kinectimals , the popular Xbox 360 Kinect nipper ’s game .
Remember when we used to have to grease one’s palms Microsoft to formulate for our platforms ? Well , Mac user , this is your revenge for having to use cyberspace Explorer for five long time . Enjoy !
Joe Wilcoxwonders why Microsoft does n’t develop more for the platform that it really makes money off of — Android — what with its medieval tithing of Android OEMs . It ’s potential it ’s just because Microsoft ’s already got a radical that knows how to encipher for OS X and has always been Java - averse .
But the Macalope suspects the real reason is more strategic than that .
James Kendrick thinksMicrosoft is developing for iOS just to remind mobile users that it exist . Which is in all likelihood a serious part of it . If you mostly use fluid products , you do n’t use anything from Microsoft , except maybe email . But then why not develop more for Android ?
The Macalope wonders if it ’s because Microsoft feels its real competition in smartphones is with Android , not iOS . Certainly that ’s the event in trying to get OEMs to make Windows Phone 7 handset , which is why the troupe ’s focusing on tax them for every Android speech sound they sell .
Whatever the event , engineering science certain makes for unusual bedfellow , does n’t it ?
Which is just a euphemism . Do n’t get grossed out by imaginativeness of partake a bed with Steve Ballmer .
Whoops , too lately .
