>
>>> Overall, make sure that your port can be published in Apples store.
>>>
>>
>>
>> As it has been said, the main problem to publish in the app store would
>> be the GPL license: Apple doesn't currently allow apps licensed under GPL
>>
>
>
>> In any case, I think that working for iOS is still worth it. Jailbreak is
>> a relatively popular practice to overcome this sort of stupid restrictions
>> that Apple imposes.
>>
>
> How many is that? 5 % ?
>
> This makes it possible to only reach the tiny percentage of iPhone users
> that have jailbreaked their phone and use alternative stores like Cydia.
>
> Considering that Android already have the double number of users (
> http://marketingland.com/us-smartphone-share-android-now-47-percent-apple-29-percent-others-decline-5249)
> I'd say we would get next to no benefit from a working iPhone
> implementation, compared with Android.
>
> And after Android a Blackberry/RIM port would obviously be the next step.
>
> Heck, there exists probably even more Microsoft phones than iphone Cydia
> users. I searched but could only find some numbers around 2 million users.
>
I haven't been able to find reliable statistics about it. But I think that
it is not only a matter of how many jailbroken iOS users there are vs how
many Android (or Blackberry, or Windows Phone) users there are. I think
that the user profile of each of them is also relevant. And, after all, any
iOS user would be able to install Apertium, although they would first have
to jailbreak their device if they haven't done it yet (that is, every iOS
user is a potential user, although it is obvious that the need of jailbreak
can be a considerable obstacle to reach some of them). Look at these
numbers as an example of what I mean:
iOS (CYDIA) APPS:
-
iMAME4all<http://apt.thebigboss.org/onepackage.php?bundleid=com.seleuco.imame4all>(a
MAME port for iOS): 118.683 downloads
- SBSettings <http://apt.thebigboss.org/onepackage.php?bundleid=sbsettings>(a
very popular tweak to easily access some system settings): 10.340.637
downloads
ANDROID APPS:
-
MAME4droid<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4all>(a
MAME port for Android by the same developer of iMAME4all): 100.000 -
500.000 downloads
-
AngryBirds<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rovio.angrybirds>(I
guess that the most popular mobile app ever): 50.000.000 - 100.000.000
downloads
I think that these numbers show that, although the amount of Android users
is evidently much bigger than the amount of iOS users with jailbreak, the
differences aren't so big for downloads. We can conclude that, for
instance, iMAME4all and MAME4droid (which basically are the same program)
probably have a relatively similar amount of users in both platforms (well,
MAME4droid will probably have about 3 times more users, but this clearly
shows that jailbroken iOS devices don't represent such a marginal market).
And SBSettings downloads and AngryBirds downloads aren't so far, specially
if we take into account that, even if they competed under the same
circumstances, a popular game like AngryBirds would still be more
interesting than a tweak like SBSettings for most of the people.
In any case, this is just my opinion (and, please, note that my opinion is
not that iOS should have a bigger priority than Android whatsoever, I just
defend that developing for iOS wouldn't be as useless as you said). I am a
newcomer here, so I am probably not the most indicated person to decide
whether it is interesting for Apertium to work on an iOS port or not...
I'd like Android embedability, Servlets and applet to get a higher
>>> priority.
>>>
>>
>> OK. We could include it in week 9-11, I guess (I think that this
>> generalization is better because we don't really know how much time we
>> would be needing for each of the tasks, it is more an "investigation" work
>> than a foreseeable coding task). What do you think?
>>
>
> Fine. I'd cut away the 2 weeks of iPhone investigation as it seems next to
> useless to me and would use the time for this stuff instead, but I can
> imagine you'd like to do the ios stuff as you are working with ios already.
>
Exactly. And not only because I am working with iOS already, but also
because I really believe that it wouldn't be as useless as you think that
it would. In any case, I will accept what you decide that it is the most
interesting thing to work on.
So, apart from this, is my work plan OK for you? And, if so, should I show
you the whole proposal before submitting it through the GSoC website?
Mikel
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