Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Android more profitable than iOS for app developer

The balance of power is shifting in the Google Android platform, according to Apple's anecdotal evidence.

Writing in Computerworld, JR Raphael cites the example of Spacetime Studios, the makers of Pocket Legends game. He writes that, "Traditionally, Apple has been viewed as the first dog, when the app is pure dollars. Android becoming more prominent part of the equation several well-known developers - and for some, in fact, begins to significantly surpass Apple."

Spacetime according to data from the "daily user activity on Android is more than double its level of IOS virtually every measure."

Raphael oln reports that Android, the game is downloaded about 9,000 times a day, compared with the 3000-4000-daily downloads from the IOS. "Android Mobile Phones users who are using the approximately about three times larger than the Apple ones," he adds, although it may be less competition in the Android platform.

The space-time, generates most of its purchases app revenue, they are30 and 50 hp rcent higher IOS Android. "We now have blown," Spacetime CEO Gary Gattis said Raphael. "Android has become our main interest." spatio-temporal data suggest that Android users three times more likely to click on ads, such as users of IOS.
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8371084/Android-more-profitable-than-iOS-for-app-developer.html