{"id":31823,"date":"2010-11-20T22:47:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-path-to-android-for-a-very-successful-ios\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:31:00","slug":"the-path-to-android-for-a-very-successful-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-path-to-android-for-a-very-successful-ios\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31823 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-path-to-android-for-a-very-successful-ios\/attachment\/31824\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lc7gnptSub1qescwho1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The path to Android for a &ldquo;very successful iOS game development shop&rdquo; might be &ldquo;skipping the Android Market entirely&rdquo; in favor of deals to be bundled on select handsets, according to John Gruber. Is the Android ecosystem that ugly?<\/p>\n<p>What that developer&rsquo;s considering is pretty wild, if you think about it. The consensus is that Android is the top-selling smartphone platform in the US now. That&rsquo;s due in no small part to the fact that there&rsquo;s a ton of Android devices, available on every major carrier. And Android&rsquo;s just going to get bigger. But this developer is considering intentionally limiting themselves to just a small fraction of the number of Android phones out there\u2014limiting the number of copies they could sell.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it would allow to them to develop their titles without worrying about gaps in OS updates from certain manufacturers (which could limit future functionality), dealing with lower-powered handsets, and\u2014perhaps most notably\u2014without wondering where the money would come from. Though the meme is perhaps self-perpetuating at this point, it seems to be the case that, on the whole, Android users are less willing to pay for apps. (Consider: Angry Birds has managed to sell millions upon millions of copies on iOS for 99 cents a pop, but the developers went the ad-supported route on Android.)<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&rsquo;t it strike you as a little crazy that an already successful developer is taking their time to figure out how to best launch on the fastest-selling smartphone platform in the US\u2014and potentially foregoing a lot of business\u2014because of potential issues with the platform? (A sad but necessary note: I don&rsquo;t hate Android. But I am asking a serious question about it.) [Daring Fireball] (via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5694782\/is-android-an-ugly-platform\">Is Android an Ugly Platform?<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The path to Android for a &ldquo;very successful iOS game development shop&rdquo; might be &ldquo;skipping the Android Market entirely&rdquo; in favor of deals to be bundled on select handsets, according to John Gruber. Is the Android ecosystem that ugly? What that developer&rsquo;s considering is pretty wild, if you think about it. The consensus is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31825,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions\/31825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}