in six month iphone 5 would be out and possibly the ipad3 which would spark even more interest in developing for Apple. This guy is on some hard drugs if he thinks 4.0 is going to draw developer away from Apple in 6 month
As a consumer, I don't really like having to buy certain hardware just to run certain software.
If that kind of thinking held sway there would never have been a Macintosh and all the great products that followed. Just Windows World where anything goes.
There are a lot of companies that make a lot of money by making a lot of inferior products...google is one of them. As is MS, Dell, HP, Sony, RIM, etc., etc.
And as such, none have earned my interest or loyalty. Apple stands head and shoulders above them all.
When apple makes an MBA with 3G connectivity (like the iPad) i will buy one and I will change my .mac/me email for my personal "stuff" only and use a gmail account for all the other "guff!" ugh!
PS. I never liked Schmidt, he comes across as "smarmy." As someone who just wants to make money by making crap products!
Like politicians, I think this will come back to haunt him.
There is next to no money to be made off of Android. Development tools suck. The consumer base thinks anything above free is too expensive, and fragmentation is best left for another thread.
Since Eric is in a prediction mood, I predict he will be gone from Google within 12 months?long before developers will ever prioritize Android over iOS.
In any case why give priority to the 90% of one's work that only produces 10% or one's revenue. I think developers will learn.
There'll be lots of comments about how Android is unprofitable for developers and such. Whatever. All this talk is reminiscent of all the threads that said Android would never ever outsell the iPhone (and later when the goalpost moved iOS).
There were probably plenty of people who said that, however, it's not about pure numbers that we are seeing today, it's about who is making money and who is getting the end user to buy more stuff - and Apple and iPhone are destroying not only Android but the whole industry.
And what matters to shareholders is profits, not whether they managed to give away 200m copies of Android for free.
The reality is actually opposite to what you say in this post. For iOS, it's VERY easy to pirate apps. All you have to do is jailbreak and get installous and you're laughing. You can get any app, no problem, and work almost always.
With android, you have to try and hunt down apps on torrent websites, with most of them not being available, and when they are, most of the time they don't work (formatted for a different CPU/GPU, different resolution, etc.).
So with android, I actually buy a lot of apps because I have no choice, but with iOS the story is different.
It may be VERY easy for you, but the vast majority of iPhone users don't jailbreak. For them, it's easier to go to the App Store and pay their 99 cents. That's why the real money to be made is off of iOS.
It may be VERY easy for you, but the vast majority of iPhone users don't jailbreak. For them, it's easier to go to the App Store and pay their 99 cents.
It may (not) be very easy for you (to believe), but the vast majority of jailbreakers don't pirate?
The reality is actually opposite to what you say in this post. For iOS, it's VERY easy to pirate apps. All you have to do is jailbreak and get installous and you're laughing. You can get any app, no problem, and work almost always.
With android, you have to try and hunt down apps on torrent websites, with most of them not being available, and when they are, most of the time they don't work (formatted for a different CPU/GPU, different resolution, etc.).
So with android, I actually buy a lot of apps because I have no choice, but with iOS the story is different.
There’s one kind of company that cares about pure volume instead sales revenue: an advertising company.
But app developers are not all advertising companies, much as Google may wish they were, and the sales revenue for apps just isn’t there on Android. It’s a harder platform to support, with lower rewards, compared iOS. And your app can easily be stolen AND (this is key) re-sold by others, with or without added malware you’ll get blamed for!
As a developer myself (albeit unreleased!) that is not a combination I want to jump on.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has said he believes mobile developers will prioritize the Android platform over Apple's iOS in the next six months, as the market shifts away from iPhone-centric development."
Eric predicts, huh? Quick, someone alert the 1991 infomertial Psychic Friends Network.
in six month iphone 5 would be out and possibly the ipad3 which would spark even more interest in developing for Apple. This guy is on some hard drugs if he thinks 4.0 is going to draw developer away from Apple in 6 month
Eric's been sniffing glue if he thinks the tide will turn in Android's favour in 6 months. Hell, even if it was going to turn as he predicts then we'd have to wait at least another 2 years for it to be noticeable.
As you say, though, the v6 iPhone (aka iP 4G, iP 5, iP 6.389527) will most likely be out in 6 months and that alone will cause a few Android vendors to start rethinking if Android is the better way to go.
My prediction, Eric, 12 months from now you'll be choking on these words.
I don't know if this prediction will be true or not. What I do know is that there will be WAY more Android phones (all flavors) out there than IOS devices at some point if things keep going as they have been. If I were Apple I would be going for Google's jugular......search. Cut this mess off at the source. Siri is a great start, it bypasses Google and heads straight to Wolfram, Yelp or some other mature service. I'm sure they will be signing up more industry specific services as time goes on.
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As a consumer, I don't really like having to buy certain hardware just to run certain software.
If that kind of thinking held sway there would never have been a Macintosh and all the great products that followed. Just Windows World where anything goes.
3... 2... 1...
And as such, none have earned my interest or loyalty. Apple stands head and shoulders above them all.
When apple makes an MBA with 3G connectivity (like the iPad) i will buy one and I will change my .mac/me email for my personal "stuff" only and use a gmail account for all the other "guff!" ugh!
PS. I never liked Schmidt, he comes across as "smarmy." As someone who just wants to make money by making crap products!
Like politicians, I think this will come back to haunt him.
There is next to no money to be made off of Android. Development tools suck. The consumer base thinks anything above free is too expensive, and fragmentation is best left for another thread.
Sweet.....
In any case why give priority to the 90% of one's work that only produces 10% or one's revenue. I think developers will learn.
There'll be lots of comments about how Android is unprofitable for developers and such. Whatever. All this talk is reminiscent of all the threads that said Android would never ever outsell the iPhone (and later when the goalpost moved iOS).
There were probably plenty of people who said that, however, it's not about pure numbers that we are seeing today, it's about who is making money and who is getting the end user to buy more stuff - and Apple and iPhone are destroying not only Android but the whole industry.
And what matters to shareholders is profits, not whether they managed to give away 200m copies of Android for free.
The reality is actually opposite to what you say in this post. For iOS, it's VERY easy to pirate apps. All you have to do is jailbreak and get installous and you're laughing. You can get any app, no problem, and work almost always.
With android, you have to try and hunt down apps on torrent websites, with most of them not being available, and when they are, most of the time they don't work (formatted for a different CPU/GPU, different resolution, etc.).
So with android, I actually buy a lot of apps because I have no choice, but with iOS the story is different.
It may be VERY easy for you, but the vast majority of iPhone users don't jailbreak. For them, it's easier to go to the App Store and pay their 99 cents. That's why the real money to be made is off of iOS.
It may be VERY easy for you, but the vast majority of iPhone users don't jailbreak. For them, it's easier to go to the App Store and pay their 99 cents.
It may (not) be very easy for you (to believe), but the vast majority of jailbreakers don't pirate?
The reality is actually opposite to what you say in this post. For iOS, it's VERY easy to pirate apps. All you have to do is jailbreak and get installous and you're laughing. You can get any app, no problem, and work almost always.
With android, you have to try and hunt down apps on torrent websites, with most of them not being available, and when they are, most of the time they don't work (formatted for a different CPU/GPU, different resolution, etc.).
So with android, I actually buy a lot of apps because I have no choice, but with iOS the story is different.
You are a thief and beneath contempt.
But app developers are not all advertising companies, much as Google may wish they were, and the sales revenue for apps just isn’t there on Android. It’s a harder platform to support, with lower rewards, compared iOS. And your app can easily be stolen AND (this is key) re-sold by others, with or without added malware you’ll get blamed for!
As a developer myself (albeit unreleased!) that is not a combination I want to jump on.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has said he believes mobile developers will prioritize the Android platform over Apple's iOS in the next six months, as the market shifts away from iPhone-centric development."
Eric predicts, huh? Quick, someone alert the 1991 infomertial Psychic Friends Network.
Isn't it nice to be in a position where even being dead-wrong has no consequences?
And people say that we can trust business more than government...
He's right - particularly those developers who want to make use of Androids gaping security holes on the most popular handset makers.
Of course he might be correct if developing the same app 3 times to make sure it runs on the THREE most popular flavors of Android is counted....
in six month iphone 5 would be out and possibly the ipad3 which would spark even more interest in developing for Apple. This guy is on some hard drugs if he thinks 4.0 is going to draw developer away from Apple in 6 month
Eric's been sniffing glue if he thinks the tide will turn in Android's favour in 6 months. Hell, even if it was going to turn as he predicts then we'd have to wait at least another 2 years for it to be noticeable.
As you say, though, the v6 iPhone (aka iP 4G, iP 5, iP 6.389527) will most likely be out in 6 months and that alone will cause a few Android vendors to start rethinking if Android is the better way to go.
My prediction, Eric, 12 months from now you'll be choking on these words.
If it's all about volume, then I'm the largest company in the world.