This is why developers want to write for iOS. Stable market compared to ”the others” on the Island.
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Indeed, Android people don’t buy apps. They don’t buy anything. Phone calls, emails, and text is all they do. Maybe Facebook/Messenger. That target market has no money, as you said. It’s a race to a bottom that was already a bottom; a race to nowhere. Yes as you said, iPhone people indeed have the extra money (or at least spend money, whether they have it or not , in the case of some people I know).
iPhone people implicitly have extra money? Where’s mine? Have I missed it somewhere?
I’m in poverty. That doesn’t mean I’m automatically going to choose the cheapest device as a rule. I’ve used droid devices and hate them. Apple devices used to be superior but now they’re just less bad, so I choose them.
Poverty doesn’t mean I’m never going to buy apps. I’m selective. I’m a musician & photographer, and there are numerous interesting tools on iOS for this. Luckily, they aren’t expensive and I can actually find a spare $30 on occasion. Sales help too. Entertainment and hobbies are necessary for sanity.
None of this has anything to do with any kind of iPhone-implied wealth status. I find it ridiculous how this myth continues to be promoted. I know what I want and I don’t waste my spare money on garbage or other pointless expendables. No alcohol, no drugs, almost no sweets, no fast food, rarely restaurants, no magazines or subscriptions (outside Netflix), I buy clothes only when needed... I save my tiny amounts of spare money until I’m sure I have made the correct choice on what to spend it on. Though, mostly, i “eat” it. Groceries are easier to justify than gadgets and entertainment.
It’s all about making careful choices.
Droid devices aren’t bought solely because of lacking money and they’re not necessarily cheap. Some people just don’t value the devices in terms of OS choice; they don’t have preference (or awareness) of the functional or usability differences. I do value the differences, so I choose appropriately.
Again, buying Apple devices doesn’t mean we are wealthy, especially when you can buy it on a payment plan.
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To be fair, no one that would consider Apple jerks for doing that really watches entire Apple keynotes either.
I’ve stopped watching their presentations because of exactly that: they’ve become Wall Street corporatist douches. They’ve stopped delivering on the values they utilized to pull me in, back in 2008. Different company today.
