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Why Android Takes Forever to Get Cool Apps
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Leslie Meredith for TechNewsDaily 14 hours ago
Even though there are more Android phones than iPhones in the United States, the number and variety of Android apps lags compared to Apple's offerings. For instance, Android users had to wait a year before they got Instagram or Pinterest apps. New research helps explain why.
There's got to be more to the story than the number of phones. Flurry, a mobile-app analytics firm, released a report this week that helps explain the problem, laying out the challenges app developers face. It also shows that Android apps are unlikely to catch up and that small developers coding for either device will get squeezed out of the market.
For app developers to make a decent living, they have to sell 50 apps an hour, 24 hours a day, for $1 each, Johan Emil Johansson, a developer in Sweden, said in a blog post outlining the difficult conditions facing today's app developers. New app versions are expensive to make, especially in light of the proliferation of devices.
App developers have long had to grapple with an overwhelming number of connected devices. Flurry counted 331 different models of smartphones and tablets that developers would have to code for if they wanted make their apps available on about 90% of devices.
Too ambitious? If developers can content themselves with only 50% of devices in use, the programmers would still have to make versions for 18 different models. And the complexity doesn't stop there; developers must also adjust apps for different operating systems. For instance, any iPhone 4 user could be running iOS 4, iOS 5 or iOS 6.
But iOS still represents fewer phone and operating system combinations than does Android . And fewer combinations means less development work and testing for cash-strapped programmers.
Flurry also found an even bigger incentive to make an iOS app rather than one for Android: More people will use the apps, and more often.
"Device models running on the iOS platform average 14 times the number of active users compared to device models running on other platforms," Mary Ellen Gordon, a Flurry analyst, said in a blog post.
In other words, one iPhone user is worth 14 Android users , based on how frequently the apps get used.
And even when Flurry isolated Samsung, the most popular Android device maker, one iOS user was still worth seven Samsung users.
Manufacturers will continue to make new devices in the hopes of standing out from competitors. The last year alone has seen the explosion of the "phablet ," a phone the size of a small tablet. And the operating system mix of old and new will grow even more complex.
So much for the whiz kid with a quirky, brilliant app idea, like 14-year-old Robert Nay who created Bubble Ball.
"Putting all of this together, we expect a future in which app developers are less frequently individuals with a creative idea and a laptop, and more frequently companies designed to develop, produce and distribute apps at scale," Flurry said.
Jonathan_337 wrote:Where's the cheapest you guys have seen iPhone 5's selling for ? Also, if I purchase one locked to bmobile, is there anyway to unlock it other than waiting for the contract to finish ?
eitech wrote:A padna gave me a 3gs dat was not activating via wifi or itunes. Also it kept "searching" for a network with or without a sim. Anyways, i was able to jailbreak, unlock it and it's now on ios 6.1.2 bb 6.15.00. All is fine except it's still " searching". I jus toggled airplane mode and it says no sim without sim, but "searchin" with sim installed. I've been online all day. Any one could shed some light on this issues? Thanks.
Sully wrote:Does UltraSn0w work on ios version >= 6?
Parvin wrote:@ eitech
You tried what I told you? An also, isn't there an 'ultrasn0w fixer' that needs to be installed as well?
It's been a long time since I dealt with JB'ing
Quality Car Rentals wrote:Friend of mine bought an unlocked Iphone5 - 16GB from the Apple Store a month ago. When he inserted his Digicel SIM in it, it would freeze up on the activation screen and return an error - unable to activate. Contacted apple store and they advised that he bring the phone into the store. He went in today with it in Miami and they replaced immediately. They also advised him that a batch comprising of over 1000 new unlocked phones that were sold were all giving this error. Just to advise tuners to keep an eye out incase they get one these phones down here.
RapToR wrote:Quality Car Rentals wrote:Friend of mine bought an unlocked Iphone5 - 16GB from the Apple Store a month ago. When he inserted his Digicel SIM in it, it would freeze up on the activation screen and return an error - unable to activate. Contacted apple store and they advised that he bring the phone into the store. He went in today with it in Miami and they replaced immediately. They also advised him that a batch comprising of over 1000 new unlocked phones that were sold were all giving this error. Just to advise tuners to keep an eye out incase they get one these phones down here.
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BlueGalant HD wrote:NEED HELP!
Since I've updated iOS 6.1.2
I'm getting "SEARCHING" then "No Service" on my iphone 4s.
Tried a Digicel and bMobile sim and nothing.
Same thing going on another 4S around.
Anybody can help?
Is it the SIM itself not compatible and software on it outdated?
turbotusty wrote:BlueGalant HD wrote:NEED HELP!
Since I've updated iOS 6.1.2
I'm getting "SEARCHING" then "No Service" on my iphone 4s.
Tried a Digicel and bMobile sim and nothing.
Same thing going on another 4S around.
Anybody can help?
Is it the SIM itself not compatible and software on it outdated?
i know what this is.. its the ais virus
apple is sh!t lmfao
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