Prediction: Android apps to swamp Apples

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by Oletros

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ames.nfs13_row

Great. Except:

Not compatible with my Android tablet running ICS.


So far over 100 apps and games I want on Android tablet, but is incompatible.

[VulchR]

Originally Posted by tdream

....
Another thing that annoys me about Google. I tried to buy my first Android app today and it wants my passport and address documentation. I didn't need to give Apple that to buy apps. Kind of bad when you think about it.

Seriously? What were you buying? 'The Dummies Guide to IED's'?

[nba1341]

Originally Posted by hyteckit

Great. Except:

Not compatible with my Android tablet running ICS.


So far over 100 apps and games I want on Android tablet, but is incompatible.

For some reason the Netherlands version was linked if you would have read the company you would have saw

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...5uZnMxM19uYSJd

Requires Android:
2.3.3 and up

[michaeljohn]

Originally Posted by JonL12345

Think about it. If the Android market is 5 times the size of Apple's and growing month on month, its obvious where the money is. Watch this space. I think we are going to see something spectacular.

LOL, is this a serious post? Have you not read all the news for like the past year about how many devs are either stopping or have stopped making Android apps because they make literally nothing? You have it backwards, all the money is in the App store, not the Play store. Here is just one of many articles on the subject

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/31680...m#.UJgD1LQvqyw

[Lampmeister]

I don't see why this issue even matters. So what if Android offers more apps? Even if they do, what have you got...a crappy Android device with a bunch of apps!

[1member1]

most android devices has different versions. some on 2.3 some on ICS and very little on jelly bean.
even chrome browser for android only support from 4.0.

In android piracy is much more easier. you can download apk and copy it to your device.
in iOS you have to jailbreak (not avilable for every version and phone) and then you have to change permissions on the folders - much more complicated for normal users.

so no I don't think android devs will make more money in the future. it will all be the same maybe even lower.

[Oletros]

Originally Posted by michaeljohn

LOL, is this a serious post? Have you not read all the news for like the past year about how many devs are either stopping or have stopped making Android apps because they make literally nothing? You have it backwards, all the money is in the App store, not the Play store. Here is just one of many articles on the subject

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/31680...m#.UJgD1LQvqyw

You know that there is a slightly difference between a survey asking interest on developing for a platform and actually developing for that platform, don't you?


Can you name those many developers that have stopped developing for Android?

[Dave.UK]

Originally Posted by 1member1

In android piracy is much more easier. you can download apk and copy it to your device.
in iOS you have to jailbreak (not avilable for every version and phone) and then you have to change permissions on the folders - much more complicated for normal users.

Since June Google has started to offer encryption keys to developers so the paid app can only be used with the account it was purchased from.

[1member1]

Originally Posted by Dave.UK

Since June Google has started to offer encryption keys to developers so the paid app can only be used with the account it was purchased from.

I'm not android user but my friends downloading 24/7. not paying for any app in the play store. it's sad.

[paulsalter]

Originally Posted by 1member1

I'm not android user but my friends downloading 24/7. not paying for any app in the play store. it's sad.

I hope you dont share any files with your friends

If they are just downloading APK files from the net I dread to think what type of nasties are in them

[Stuntman06]

Originally Posted by tdream

Another thing that annoys me about Google. I tried to buy my first Android app today and it wants my passport and address documentation. I didn't need to give Apple that to buy apps. Kind of bad when you think about it.

That is rather unusual. I never had that when I tried to buy apps. Just asked for me credit card info the first time. After that it remembers it.

[b166er]

This whole argument makes no sense, again. Android does not "sell phones" at all. Samsung, LG, HTC, etc sell phones.

This is like saying Windows sold more PC's than Apple. You're comparing a software that is available on hundreds of devices VS an exclusive package of hardware and software that is only available from Apple.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm saying this argument, as always, makes no freaking sense. I don't get how it is this hard to understand even after decades of comparing Windows VS Apple.

[michaeljohn]

Originally Posted by Oletros

You know that there is a slightly difference between a survey asking interest on developing for a platform and actually developing for that platform, don't you?


Can you name those many developers that have stopped developing for Android?

Do a Google search yourself. There are a ton of articles on this subject.

[Oletros]

Originally Posted by michaeljohn

Do a Google search yourself. There are a ton of articles on this subject.

You're the one claiming that developers are abandoning Android.

And it is clear that you don't have any proof and you're only spreading FUD

[michaeljohn]

Originally Posted by Oletros

You're the one claiming that developers are abandoning Android.

And it is clear that you don't have any proof and you're only spreading FUD

Pages here, enjoy

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=...iw=768&bih=912

[Oletros]

Originally Posted by michaeljohn

Pages here, enjoy

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=...iw=768&bih=912

Have you actually read the links? If you post 23 links to the same IDC history it still won't provve your point.

Enjoy your FUD

[michaeljohn]

Originally Posted by Oletros

Have you actually read the links? If you post 23 links to the same IDC history it still won't provve your point.

Enjoy your FUD

There are at least a dozen different articles there. Learn to read.

[Oletros]

Originally Posted by michaeljohn

There are at least a dozen different articles there. Learn to read.

The one that has to learn to read is you. None of them apart the Mika Mobile case talks about developers abandoning Android, and Mika Mobile was a very special case.

And still waiting those many Android developers that have abandoned the platform. And you know why tyou are incapable of naming them, because you don't have nothing, only FUD

Enjoy your hatred

[steviewhy]

Originally Posted by michaeljohn

There are at least a dozen different articles there. Learn to read.

Linking a google search between users is useless due to bubbling.

Everyone will get different results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

[flameproof]

Originally Posted by JonL12345

With Android selling 5 times the number of phones in Q3 of 2012 than Apple, that can only mean one thing. Android apps are going to grow in number so fast that Apple's app store is going to look puny by comparison.

So? It means:

1. ...that you can find what you need for either platform.

2. ... you can chose then between 2000+ torch/flashlight apps rather then the mediocre 1000 you have now for iOS.

Originally Posted by JonL12345

If the Android market is 5 times the size of Apple's and growing month on month, its obvious where the money is.

Android is already bigger then iOS for a looong time. But still.... I know one app developer that has the same app for iOS and Android. Even though there are more Android phones out there, he makes way more money with iOS. Not sure why, seems iOS users are more into buying apps.

[AQUADock]

Originally Posted by onthecouchagain

There was once a time when larger screen devices was a deal breaker (Hello iPhone 5, and hello iPad Mini that can apparently be used with one hand according to Apple).

Theres a difference in using with one hand and holding it with one hand. I don't really care about the whole one hand usage thing but im just saying.

[onthecouchagain]

Originally Posted by AQUADock

Theres a difference in using with one hand and holding it with one hand. I don't really care about the whole one hand usage thing but im just saying.

Right. And Apple makes the distinction in the video.

In the official iPad Mini video, Ive explicitly says "...you can still pick it up and easily use it with one hand..." Easily. Earlier in the video, they make the distinction that you can hold it with one hand, but at the 2:10 mark, they're clearly talking about using it with one hand.

Video is here: http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overv...-mini-features)

Going by that reasoning, any device can be used one handed, yet according to their iPhone 5 campaign, one of the main talking points is that anything larger than a 4" smartphone is unusable with one hand.

So either the iPad Mini can be used one handed (like it says in the video) and therefore so can other smaller smartphones, or nothing above the iPhone 5 screen size (like it says in the iPhone campaigns) can be used one handed in which case the iPad Mini video is a lie.

[AQUADock]

Originally Posted by onthecouchagain

Right. And Apple makes the distinction in the video.

In the official iPad Mini video, Ive explicitly says "...you can still pick it up and easily use it with one hand..." Easily. Earlier in the video, they make the distinction that you can hold it with one hand, but at the 2:10 mark, they're clearly talking about using it with one hand.

Video is here: http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overv...-mini-features)

Going by that reasoning, any device can be used one handed, yet according to their iPhone 5 campaign, one of the main talking points is that anything larger than a 4" smartphone is unusable with one hand.

So either the iPad Mini can be used one handed (like it says in the video) and therefore so can other smaller smartphones, or nothing above the iPhone 5 screen size (like it says in the iPhone campaigns) can be used one handed in which case the iPad Mini video is a lie.

So Apple is contradicting themselves theres nothing new in that, they always have. Even if Apple said that you still can't use the whole display with one hand while holding it. I think what they mean is that with the small borders you can manipulate some of the display you can't do that with the full size iPad.

The reason Apple was campaigning the whole one handed thing with iPhone 5 was so they could give a reason for why they only made the display taller the actual reason is because every app in the appstore would have to be remade for the iPhone 5. Making stretching the apps is easy .

[onthecouchagain]

Originally Posted by AQUADock

So Apple is contradicting themselves theres nothing new in that, they always have. Even if Apple said that you still can't use the whole display with one hand while holding it. I think what they mean is that with the small borders you can manipulate some of the display you can't do that with the full size iPad.

The reason Apple was campaigning the whole one handed thing with iPhone 5 was so they could give a reason for why they only made the display taller the actual reason is because every app in the appstore would have to be remade for the iPhone 5. Making stretching the apps is easy .

Agreed.

Some see Apple's decision regarding screen size as a huge plus, and indeed there are benefits to keeping everything tidy, but their fear of fragmentation, in my opinion, holds them back from really exploring new hardware and software.

[jimmyb5374]

This is my opinion ,not based on scientific data / theorem or dubious web links ;

Apple fear making bigger devices with resizable widgets and customisable setup and open development, purely on the basis they know unless they put in all the work or supersize the processor and ram the devices will LAG , and apple simply can't have that , or they will have devices with no distinction from android than better build quality and a certain fruit based imprint on the back

Just my opinion , but think about it, , its either commercial (profit margin / component costs) or pure fear they will have a lot of work to do not to end up like a one horse android (trick) pony.