Piper Jaffray ’s Gene Munster predicts that the mean iOS gimmick proprietor will increase app purchases by 61 percent this year and that the outlook for the App Store is good . So , clip once again for some zany pundits to ask “ What wine-coloured go with line-shooting ? ”
The Macalope hates to keep harp onhow improper Henry Blodgetand others were … HAHAHAHA , oh , God , ca n’t say that with a straight face ! He loves it . He really does .
But think that Blodget ’s original line of reasoning why Apple should be shaking in its fashionable and user - friendly boots was because Android corrode all the market contribution and developers were going to stop making computer software for Io because developers go where the multitude are even if those the great unwashed do n’t grease one’s palms software program .
Well , he did n’t say that last fleck because that would have made his argument face asinine . When he was really just shoot for dunderheaded .
Phillip Elmer - Dewittsummarizes some of Munster ’s notes :
Apple ’s App Store has more than 425,000 apps . The Android Market has 200,000 . In May , Google ( GOOG ) announced its 4.5 one-billionth app download , compared with Apple ’s 15 billion as of July 7 .
Of naturally , there are other storehouse on Android , but you ’ve got to guess that Google ’s is the large , so the full number of downloads is believably still significantly less than for iOS , despite all the Android devices floating around out there . Yet , we spent much of the last year get word how it was the PC war all over again andmeep morp boodily bonkiPhone doom .
Horace Dediu articulatedsomething that ’s been rattle around just under the Macalope ’s antlers for some time . That is that developers no longer demand or can give to concentrate exclusively on one platform . growing , marketing , and distribution costs are lower than they used to be — so are average selling damage .
So the very reason which are driving developer to spread out their stakes across all and any novel platforms should point the potential for new weapons platform and the sustainability of minuscule platforms . The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “ war ” is uninitiate .
let the cat out of the bag it , babe .
hoi polloi have been suggest that because the Android Marketplace is grow faster than the App Store , that it willsoon catch up to and pass it . The Macalope ’s not tell he have sex what ’s going to find , but ifMacworldwithheld his Medicago sativa and pressure him to guess , he ’d say that at most they ’ll reach approximately mirror symmetry . If you ’re a developer , you ’re go to prepare for where the money is , which is currently iOS . The cause the Android Marketplace is growing so tight is because it ’s receive a lot of catching up to do .
That was just a joke about the alfalfa by the way . The Macalope ’s got his own supplier . He could hook you up , if you desire .
