Despite the dire warnings ofHenry Blodget , mart share alone is n’t making Android into a developer ’s promised land .
It ’s far more common for apps in the iOS App Store to make money than it is for apps in the Google Android Market , according to a report published by Dutch nomadic app store enquiry firm Distimo .
Watts Martin manoeuvre out the reason for this , which isthe same intellect no ones raking in money sell Linux applications .
The Linux securities industry has a very strong bias toward working capital - F Free Software — and also toward small - f free software . If there ’s an receptive source tantamount to what you ’re selling on Linux , you’re able to pretty much draw a blank selling a commercial-grade product — even if your app is provably upright in important areas , you ’re going to mislay .
app market place on iOS and Android do differently because the platform themselves appeal hoi polloi with different values . The Henry Blodgets of the world do n’t get this . Android user are more potential to be free / undefended software buffs or multitude who went for the cheapest smartphone they could get that did n’t have the timeless stylings of aNickelbackCD ( coughing , BlackBerry , coughing ) . These are utterly valid choices , they just happen to be different choices than the Macalope and most iPhone drug user make .
This refinement is n’t going to change a lot just because the market gets bigger . Android is attract a certain kind of user : the kind that happens to be more averse to buying apps .
But while Android developer are n’t making much money off the chopine , guess who is ?
What ?
Phil Collins ?
Uh … no . Not as far as the Macalope know anyway .
Why would you say that ? That was just weird .
Huh .
Anyway , no , it’sMicrosoft . Because of a letters patent settlement with HTC , the fellowship reportedly makes $ 5 off every Android phone HTC sells , for a total of $ 150 million — that ’s $ 120 million more than the company ’s made off of Windows Phone licensing . While that disparity is humourous , $ 150 million is a rounding error error for a company that just dumped$8.5 billion on a VoIP applications programme people lie with to hate . Still , that number might develop , as Redmond is act on licensing agreements with other Android OEMs .
The moral here , kids , is that if you want to make money off of Android , do n’t code Android apps . Invent a fourth dimension machine and go back and patent some phone engineering science .
You should probably also patent the time machine while you ’re at it .
