[citation][nom]1pp1k10k4m1[/nom]Wow, this is probably the most pointless article I've seen on Tom's in a week or so. I guess when they aren't grabbing week-old news from Gizmodo or Engadget they dig this stuff up. That aside, iOS ships on 1 phone, the iPhone; Android is being flooded into the market on an increasingly countless number of phones, is it really all that surprising? It's actually more common sense than anything else, I'm a bit surprised it took this long. Google says Android shipments increased 615%, and Apple about 85%. Now, it seems Apple has to ship (in present form and for half of the last year), one of two phones, 3GS or 4G (and 3GS and 3G for the other half of the year) over one wireless carrier, AT&T in the US, so they experience a 85% growth over two phones at any given time about 42.5% per phone, again, on ONE carrier. Google has to ship one of about 121 devices (according to Wikipedia as of Jan 31, 2011) (11 more have been released in Jan 2011 alone) phones over multiple carriers, or about 5.08% growth per handset model. Apple has had far more growth, to the tune of 8 times, per handset model. Apple just finished posting a company all-time record profit last quarter, shipping more iPhones and iPad's than ever. I doubt Google can say they posted a company record profit with handsets or tablets being a significant part of that, maybe in advertising. This article doesn't really paint a very good picture of what is actually happening in the market on a basic level. It uses an inflated, spun statistic to get android fan boy's jollies off. I have both an iPhone 3GS and Droid 2 handsets, so I'm not bashing either company in and of themselves; this is just very poor journalism and somewhat unrepresentative of the actual market snapshot. Looks more like someone had a deadline to meet than actual thoughtful consideration, hence the reason such a complex stat is almost completely ignored (i haven't even covered it completely), and what could be pages long of good analysis is 6 sentences, one of which is a terrible run-on-made-paragraph.[/citation]
Everything you're saying hardly testifies in favour of Apple, the fact they keep everything to themselves makes them liable to have such a comparatively bad market share. Google spread their OS to anyone willing to take it and mould it into their products and now Android is the OS of choice with the most choice.
[citation][nom]Smochina[/nom]Have you tried writing for your beloved Android? Google can't even make a unified OS to run on all devices, every manufacturer makes whatever they want with the phones and you end up with a wide range of devices incompatible with each other even though they run the same OS. Did you know Angry Birds DOES NOT run on 30 android devices? Some of them new. How is an independent developer going to go around this issue other than buying every Android phone out there to test his application? And what about that crap Android market place that Google know it doesn't do it's job. And another issue that plagues the Android platform, piracy, it's easier to install a pirated applications than it is to buy them. So you still wonder why developers prefer iOS instead, one build to run on Ipod 2n generation, 3rd generation, 4th generation, Iphone 3G, 3GS, 4, and Ipad. The only thing you need to worry about is resolution, and nothing more.[/citation]
Ah yes, the old Angry Birds argument. I assume you read the Rovio CEO's tweet regarding coding for Android? It came out of when Lord Jobs made the same argument quoting Angry Birds as an example with made up remarks from the CEO. This tweet detailed how he had never said Android was harder to code for than iOS and that they liked coding for Android.
By the way, iOS is resolution independent, therefore iOS developers don't need to worry about it, everything scales as it should to each screen. While a point in favour of iOS, a point against you as it shows you don't know what you're on about.
PS - I currently am coding for Android, it's a piece of piss, anyone who thinks otherwise may need to re-consider what they want to do as a career.
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