There are lots of people who develop for the competing
system, Apple's iOS. In fact iOS development experience is one of the standard
resume checkoffs for working in tech. Almost all the startups in NYC have
launched their core product for iOS first and later they realize to have an
Android version of their app.
If you think in short terms and you’re not thinking
globally ignoring Android at first is somewhat understandable. In the US, specially
in NYC, the iOS market share is incredibly
holding 42% nationwide share and Android has 50% of the share.
But Why Is Hard To
Find Android Developers?
Ø Let’s
say. Either that you need your app to be globalised or because a lot of users
are asking it. If this isn’t the case, you think that porting your app will
double your users overnight.
Ø Secondly,
because the response of the Android market is not as good as you expected and
the profits are not comparable to iOS. No. That’s not the fact. If you don develop a mobile app that takes
advantage of any of the benefits of the platform, then what do you expect?
Now, think from a developer’s perspective.
No Android developer find it very attractive to work where
Android becomes the second choice. They see all of your apps being introduced
on iOS first and they see you complaining about the Android market. The latter
is always the afterthought,or rather the copied-across version of the iOS app.
Thus it's never quite as good as if it had been developed for Android
initially.
Since 90% of Apple's users have updated their phones to the
latest version, iOS is easier to develop for. Whereas Android comprise multiple
versions on multiple phones which means developers have to make multiple
versions of their app in order to ensure that users can actually get it to
work. Like mentioned above, inspite of Apple having about a 50% share of users,
only a wealthy sliver of the global market uses iOS- 80% - are on Android. So
figurring out a lucrative business model that is Android-first is still worth
the thought.
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