<story><title>Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2010/08/02/android-sales-overtake-iphone-in-the-u-s/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>This trend was pretty easy to spot.  Almost 6 months ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129465&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that developers are making a lot more money on iPhone apps.  I&apos;ve heard several developers complaining that their apps don&apos;t sell on Android.  Will this eventually change?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregholland</author><text>I don&apos;t think it will change anytime soon.&lt;p&gt;1, The marketplace sucks compared to the app store in many ways. There are few ways to feature your apps on the marketplace vs apple which has the &quot;what hot&quot;, &quot;new and noteworthy&quot;, &quot;top paid&quot;, &quot;top grossing&quot; categories. In comparison, the android marketplace doesn&apos;t.&lt;p&gt;2, On the apple app store, you are given more promotion room on your app page itself for more descriptive text and screenshots.&lt;p&gt;3, The android marketplace is FILLED with crap and spam apps, just go to the &quot;whats new&quot; section of your android marketplace and its filled with 95% crap-ware and those ringtone apps. There is no clear way for consumers to find good apps vs these garbage apps. This destroys the user&apos;s experience in the marketplace.&lt;p&gt;4, Related to above, the lack of regulation has fostered a system where comment spamming other apps&apos;s page and creating apps that does shady things with user&apos;s data is actually more profitable than creating quality apps. see here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/2f3r4g9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/2f3r4g9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;5, There is a culture of &quot;free&quot; and &quot;opensource&quot; in the entire Android ecosystem and most apps are released for free or are ad-supported. Google seem to love this since if you use their ad system, they get a cut and therefore they don&apos;t seem to have an incentive to push paid apps to have wider availability.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I&apos;m looking forward to what Meego and Win7MO will bring for us developers. I hope they will follow Apple&apos;s model of having tighter control over their app stores rather than the mess that the Android marketplace is.</text></comment>
<story><title>Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2010/08/02/android-sales-overtake-iphone-in-the-u-s/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>This trend was pretty easy to spot.  Almost 6 months ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129465&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that developers are making a lot more money on iPhone apps.  I&apos;ve heard several developers complaining that their apps don&apos;t sell on Android.  Will this eventually change?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starnix17</author><text>FWIW, I went from making $20 a month on Android apps to $100 a month in the past two months or so.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if developers that actually sell mass amounts of apps are noticing this too?</text></comment>