UK-centric email follows: matt smith <[email protected]> wrote: > look at the quality of the games on iphone if you want to know what i > am talking about ... need for speed, the sims, rolando, etc.
The iPhone store is better regulated, pay-for and on the fashionable device. It's where dev houses go. Also, games devs usually like c++. iPhone is Objective C, but has a very thin wrapper to run c++. Android is Java, which is bigger in the mobile device world, but not in the games world. So Android attracts mobile developers who want to scale up their mobile games, iPhone attracts games developers who want to port to iPhone. iPhone gets the better games. That said, there's been a whole lot of criticism of the uselessness of the iphone store recently. Rejections without reasoning, multiple month delays, complete lack of information (developers don't know how their app was found, so don't know who to advertise to, for example), so maybe this will change. Also, Universities are positively churning out Java programmers. > so the worrying point on android is that 8 months into the paid > market, no app has sold even 50,000 copies, including the top 2 apps > advanced task manager / power manager which are on the market for a > mere $0.99 and updated constantly Android targets a different market to iPhone. Well, it's cerainly in a different market, whether it aimed to get there or not. People with money to dispense with and show off buy an iPhone. They're also more likely to pay for apps for their phone. > there have been many benefits of open source, but open source should > not always mean free and the pursuit of all apps being free will mean > devs will abandon the platform for iphone, quality will continue to > stay low and then the whole android platform will suffer. I'm just going to remind you of the unfortunate duality of the meaning of the word 'free'. Many people feel that Open Source *should* always remain free as in freedom, but not necessarily as in herpes. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
