• bokster@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    None of this account for differences in purchasing power and phone price.

    If you have an $150 Android device, I would of course expect you to spend way less on software than somebody with a $1500 iPhone.

    I’m not saying ‘develop for Android only’ but if your business relies on one ecosystem only, you’re at a higher risk and you’re leaving money on the table.

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      2 months ago

      You are 100% right.

      If you dev for only one you will be leaving money on the table. But for small / solo devs I can 100% see why focusing on iOS and those high paying customers makes sense if all you care about is money.

      Then once you have a customer base then you build out an android team/app.

      I’m not saying it should be this way. I’m just saying I understand why it is this way.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      an $150

      a $1500

      How do you pronounce these? An 'undred and fifty? I’m honestly curious, because I can’t feel like an fits on either. I wasn’t going to care enough to ask but then you put a on one thousand five hundred.