![]() ![]() On the book publishing front that might be a different story and to understand that better I can recommend the Monday Note post on Apple’s Bet on Publishing by Frederic Filloux. Sure some of it will stabilize and get better on Android too, but I don’t think that we will be looking at Android winning a 80% marketshare as George proposes. AppStore and iOS are however a no-brainer for a non-technical user. The lesser quality also causes usability issues with getting an Android mobile device to work due to interdependencies of its various HW vendors, Android versions, SW libraries, and various application sellers. Once we see more malicious viruses appearing on Android, the benefits of Apple’s approval model will be obvious. That also ensures that iOS apps will hardly ever hang or crash the whole operating system. IOS Apps are undoubtedly of better quality than Android, because of the quality cycle in the approval process. All of which doesn’t exist in the same way in any other mobile environment. ![]() All in all 30% are a pretty good deal, plus the opportunity to make additional revenue through advertizing. Well, the main reason is that typical software distribution channels require at least 50% commission to the seller, they don’t provide automatically a worldwide market, and leave the vendor open to software copying or fraud by the dealers. Only if that difference in pace continues would Android Market surpass AppStore in volume sometime in 2012. Why do I see that differently? First, Android App markets are apparently growing three times faster than AppStore, but it is easy to grow faster in the beginning. I agree with much of what he says, except that I am not sure that the Apple distribution charges for the AppStore will reduce it’s market potential and leave the market open to Android. Apple has also made in its latest releases of its development environments the porting of iOS applications to the Mac a lot easier, similar to the emulator I mused about.įorrester’s CEO, George Colony has recently posted on Apple’s position in the mobile market. I am pleased to see that my predictions came more or less true, both in terms of the iPad and the AppStore being expanded to the Mac. A year ago I posted on the future of the newly announced iPad and its relevance for mobile and the Internet.
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