Why is the development of applications for Android - an unprofitable business

Android dominates the smartphone market, compared with a market share owned by iPhone. Despite this, developers mostly prefer to write applications specifically for iOS, according to Business Insider. Their analogues for the Android platform are either in parallel with programs for iOS, or after. None of the developers or customers' specific applications has not yet been put in priority the Android OS.

Reported Ryan Mettsner (Ryan Matzner), Fueled director, engaged in the development of applications for mobile platforms on the order of various companies such as Conde Naste, Urban Daddy or American Express. Yet none of his clients did not ask to start the development of the ordered software from the program for the Android platform.

As part of the work Fueled developers for iOS, as well as for Android. However, customers typically ask for the establishment of programs for the mobile platform from Google, if they were successful iOS-version. The most that are customers, is to write applications for both platforms simultaneously. If at the client company limited budget for such a project, the choice always falls on the utility for iOS.

According to Mettsnera, the fact there are three reasons. First, iPhone users are willing to spend more on the application. This is due to their solvency on the one hand, and more convenient integration of the App Store, with plastic cards, on the other. (Though, to tie the card to your Google account, and buy apps on the Google Play no longer a problem.) Second, iOS users are more open to new experiences and expertise, and therefore, most are willing to buy new programs (talk about it all sorts of investigations, but the point is, all the same, strange). Third, to develop applications for Android takes more time (120% of the time spent on creating iOS-programs) and resources.

The conclusion in this case is simple: users of Android-smartphone is much less and less willing to pay for mobile applications than owners iGadzhetov. From personal experience, I will say, that really high quality Android apps are bought with a bang, but there are, unfortunately, very little. For example, the level of Twitter-client Tweetbot for Android-plates do not exist for them, in principle, a convenient software of this kind is not. Perhaps if the developers paid more attention to the quality of Google manufactured products for the mobile platform, then it would be better to buy. But, again, there is the problem of fragmentation - of different devices based on different versions of Android a lot, and as a result the development of turns much more difficult and expensive. In addition, install the cracked software on Android-powered device, you can do without the "dancing with a tambourine," and iOS-device need to jailbreak, and even then to know which supplements to put that in simple layman often unbearable task. That is, Android users a great temptation not to pay for the program, because they can easily get for free.