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Worse, it is an estimate of sales to date of the two markets. The Android market was seriously immature until around a year ago, and it has been exploding since (from a personal perspective, the number of apps worth buying has increased exponentially in the past couple of months). Most recent anecdotes seen on here and on other development boards have found similar current sales rates across Android and iOS. If I'm making an app now, it is meaningless that for three years iOS held a huge headstart.

There are a couple of platform zealot prats rambling on with their standard, dated anti-Android nonsense in here. It is disheartening that they haven't been carpet bombed into the hellban so many voices of reason end of enduring.




Interesting, could you point me towards those?

I'm seriously considering picking up some android kit after reading more about how the marketplace works now.

Do you think it would be worth it to just focus on ICS at this point?

On iOS I just support the latest. (I figure users with the older versions can stay on them til they upgrade and it reduces support issues drastically)




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