<story><title>Ask PG: Is RFS3 &quot;Things built on Twitter&quot; still sensible to prioritise?</title><text>Given Twitter&apos;s capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&amp;#62; Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s unfortunate that this persists even though Android now has twice the smartphone marketshare iOS has. It doesn&apos;t seem like things will be changing any time soon either.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>To most startups we fund, iOS is way more important.  Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.  There are a few exceptions like Kyte (&lt;a href=&quot;http://kytephone.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://kytephone.com&lt;/a&gt;) who use Android to do things you can&apos;t do on iOS.  And of course Apportable (&lt;a href=&quot;http://apportable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://apportable.com&lt;/a&gt;) has been very successful auto-porting iOS apps to Android.</text></item><item><author>dave1619</author><text>Would you consider iOS and Android similar in terms of risk and developer potential?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Facebook seems somewhere between Twitter and iOS.</text></item><item><author>donall</author><text>Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months?&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm bells today?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>It certainly doesn&apos;t seem as promising a territory as it used to.  Not so much because it&apos;s more dangerous as because Twitter hasn&apos;t turned out to be a &quot;platform&quot; in the same sense as say iOS has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>And China has more than twice as many internet users as the United States.  However, I&apos;m pretty sure the American users spend more money per capita and that it&apos;s not an accident that most YC startups target them first.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask PG: Is RFS3 &quot;Things built on Twitter&quot; still sensible to prioritise?</title><text>Given Twitter&apos;s capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>&amp;#62; Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s unfortunate that this persists even though Android now has twice the smartphone marketshare iOS has. It doesn&apos;t seem like things will be changing any time soon either.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>To most startups we fund, iOS is way more important.  Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android.  There are a few exceptions like Kyte (&lt;a href=&quot;http://kytephone.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://kytephone.com&lt;/a&gt;) who use Android to do things you can&apos;t do on iOS.  And of course Apportable (&lt;a href=&quot;http://apportable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://apportable.com&lt;/a&gt;) has been very successful auto-porting iOS apps to Android.</text></item><item><author>dave1619</author><text>Would you consider iOS and Android similar in terms of risk and developer potential?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Facebook seems somewhere between Twitter and iOS.</text></item><item><author>donall</author><text>Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months?&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm bells today?</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>It certainly doesn&apos;t seem as promising a territory as it used to.  Not so much because it&apos;s more dangerous as because Twitter hasn&apos;t turned out to be a &quot;platform&quot; in the same sense as say iOS has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siong1987</author><text>Android has twice the smartphone marketshare than iOS.  But, it is so fragmented that building for the Android market requires you to have at least few different devices to test out your app, not to mention that there are multiple versions of Android and modified Android from the network providers.  It definitely requires more effort than building for iOS.&lt;p&gt;App distribution on Android is actually more tricky than the App Store on iOS.  There are actually a few &quot;App Stores&quot; for the Android, Google Play vs Amazon App Store.</text></comment>