Sep 02
70% of iPhone apps cost money. About the same percent of Android apps are free.
So as a professional developer… where should I invest my company’s resources?
Oddly… when I consider mobile projects, I lean towards the Android. Why? It is easier to program, and I don’t have to get Apple’s permission. Plus, I think the iPhone’s glory days are nearly ended.
The acid test will be the DroidPad, which I think will kick the snot out of the iPad both on price and features.
In the near future Apple will be hard pressed to be as totalitarian as they have been and I expect longer term that the iPhone will be marginalized like the BlackBerry rapidly has become. Since phone turnover is extremely rapid, this can happen quicker than you think.
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
when do you expect the droidpad to come out? Why will it be better than Ipad? Would you recommend waiting a generation until bugs are worked out?
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
You can get Droidpads from China now as development prototypes. Formal ones are due this month and for Christmas. Samsung announced Galaxy pad today, it is a droid platform pad.
It isn’t necessarily that the Droidpad will be better, each will have advantages. The droidpads will be cheaper, like Droid phones are today.
I would wait a generation, which means just a few months.