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kennysmoothx | 3 years ago

For me what keeps me on iOS vs Android is app quality. No matter how many times I try to switch to Android completely, the lack of quality apps on the Play store always bums me out.

The best apps on the App Store are unique to iOS, and Android apps always feel like an after thought, and many of the best iOS apps do not have Android counterparts.

Apollo for reddit, CoPilot for money management, Flighty for flight tracking, Foreflight for aviation, Halide for camera, Things/Muse for notes and todos, Overcast/Castro for podcasts, Tweetbot/Twitterific twitter, even Spark for email use to be iOS only for years.

I challenge you to compare the quality of iOS only vs Android only apps.

The iOS dev community seems vibrant, and I wish I could say the same for Android.

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tluyben2|3 years ago

> quality apps on the Play store

After 10+ years of making apps, the discussion with new clients is still the same here (EU/USA) every time:

Client: we want an app

Me: iOS or Android or both?

Client: both

Me: Ok, which one first?

Client: iOS, I have an iPhone 13 Pro max, make it work on that!

... app designed and built in close co-op with the client

Me: What do you think?

Client: Great! Publish it! Let me put it on my phone!

Me: shall we do the Android design? On which phone types should it work; premium or also mid or budget?

Client: Who cares, just do something and publish it whenever. Here is money, Bye!

raydev|3 years ago

I worked for a similar company that put in real effort to make quality, well-designed, native Android apps to match the iOS offerings. I left in 2019, so my info might be out of date.

On iOS we inevitably made anywhere from 2x to 10x the amount of money through IAPs. No matter how good or fast the Android app was, no matter how many good reviews, no matter if we saw 2x or 3x or 4x as many installs on Android.

If our clients wanted to actually profit, the answer was clear: do iOS first, and then decide whether an Android version is even necessary.

akmarinov|3 years ago

I work on an app with 100k MAU. Android users are 3x iOS users, but those iOS users make us 3x more money on both ads and subscriptions than the Android userbase.