http://blog.flurry.com/bid/85911/App-Developers-Signal-Apple-Allegiance-Ahead-of-WWDC-and-Google-I-O
Pretty interesting stuff there. As I've been howling about for ages, fragmentation is going to kill Android unless Google does something about it. The fact that the majority of phones are still using a two year old OS is pretty damning and Google has to do something about it. Many of those phones could run ICS (like, say, mine) but since Google leaves updates to carriers/manufacturers, these phones won't get those updates. Compare that to Apple, which usually approaches a 90% saturation of its latest OS by the time the new OS arrives a year later.


It also briefly talks about money, with iOS apps performing at $1.00 per user compared to $.24 per user on Android. That's pretty damning evidence. People bitch and moan about Apple's closed ecosystem but from a developer standpoint, why wouldn't you love it? The vast majority of your users are under 2-3 different hardware specs, 75-90% of them run the same OS, and users spend four times as much money on the platform as competitors' users. That's a developer's wet dream.


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