IreneW

mknelson said:

lkrupp said:

Replacing a TGI Friday’s with an Apple Store seems like an improvement to me. I wonder what the real issue is because the old TGI Friday’s was certainly “commercializing a public area” wouldn't you think.

You missed the part about it partly blocking the entry to a park, and taking up part of a space used for public performances.

The park is long and narrow - the location is at one of the narrow ends.

Yes, the alternative to building a tech store is actually not to keep the TGIF (which is in a long-time provisional lease) but to open up the space. Good decision!

The complete list looks like this:

1. Blockchain
2. Google Cloud Platform
3. Volusion
4. Risk management
5. Product photography
6. Rapid prototyping
7. Google App Engine API
8. SCORM
9. GitLab
10. Go development
11. Apple UIKit
12. Enterprise architecture
13. Tensorflow
14. Atlassian Confluence
15. Apple Xcode
16. eLearning
17. Customer retention
18. Articulate storyline
19. Node.js
20. Scala development

Such a convoluted and mixed bag of skills that it is really hard to take seriously, if you ask me. 70 percent of fastest-growing skills are new to the index, which they claim underscores rapid evolution of skills. I'd say it is a sign of a bad methology.

tmay said:

IreneW said:

tmay said:

IreneW said:

ericthehalfbee said:

cropr said:

nunzy sai i8d:

This is why the devs always come out with the iOS version of an app before they come out with the Android version, and lots of them never even bother to make an Android version.

And the iOS version is always much better quality than the Android version.

Owning an app development company, I can only disagree.   All our apps are simultaneously developed for Android and iOS and there is absolutely no difference in quality between the 2 versions. 

We also develop apps on request for 3rd parties.   I think it was in 2013 we got the last request for an iOS only app. 

Irrelevant. Yours is the case for many, but doesn’t change the fact that overall developers still favor iOS. Or the fact that overall iOS Apps are superior (esp tablet Apps which are a complete joke on Android).

And you know this because you are a pro developer targeting both OS's, or because you have some numbers to back it up?

E.g. what tablet apps are you talking about?

How about you make a list of ten apps that would be of interest to, and/or unavailable to, anyone with an iPad? Just ten.

I'll wait.

I was asking about "the fact" that iOS apps are superior (esp for tablets). As a SW test leader, with extensive experience of testing iOS as well as Android apps, I'd like to know. If the general public finds some apps "a complete joke", I'd like to know. Just to make sure I do a better job.

I don't understand why _I_ should make a list of apps? Care to explain?

You were the one that commented about Amazon. 

I looked at Amazon's app store; not impressed.

Yes, in another reply in another part of this thread about another question, I gave Amazon as an example of a curated app store, important for some developers, besides Google and Apple.

Looking at the top lists (check App Annie or Sensor Tower) these look very similar across all three stores. Obviously I haven't tested and compared functionality between the versions for all, but these I have compared has very similar feature sets and quality. (Actually, one of the common complaints from our UX testers are that app versions are _too_ similar, not embracing the different usage patterns iOS and Android users expect. In some cases this is due to portability frameworks that more closely copies e.g. Material design, in other cases it is due to explicit requirements from the executives.

So, what was the question again?

ericthehalfbee said:

cropr said:

nunzy said:

This is why the devs always come out with the iOS version of an app before they come out with the Android version, and lots of them never even bother to make an Android version.

And the iOS version is always much better quality than the Android version.

Owning an app development company, I can only disagree.   All our apps are simultaneously developed for Android and iOS and there is absolutely no difference in quality between the 2 versions. 

We also develop apps on request for 3rd parties.   I think it was in 2013 we got the last request for an iOS only app. 

Irrelevant. Yours is the case for many, but doesn’t change the fact that overall developers still favor iOS. Or the fact that overall iOS Apps are superior (esp tablet Apps which are a complete joke on Android).

And you know this because you are a pro developer targeting both OS's, or because you have some numbers to back it up?

E.g. what tablet apps are you talking about?

gatorguy said:

IreneW said:

nunzy said:

Apple should just get out of India altogether.  It's not exactly an iPhone-like place. 

There's plenty of other countries in the world with more wealthy people.  That is where Apple needs to expand.

Ban India! 

You really have no idea what the world looks like, do you?

I don't think Nunzy is here for rational discussion. 

Sog35.....

Yes, sorry about that, I usually try to just ignore him/her.

But in this thread there seems to be a lot of AI regulars that don't know much about India or the way emerging markets work. Or much about how Apple relates to other tech manufacturers, but that is less surprising.