iOS Training in Jayanagar

Why iOS apps are better than Android apps, and why we tend to review more iOS apps

Our audience prefers Apple devices

A look at our analytics is pretty amazing: 15 of the top 20 devices used by our mobile audience are Apple devices, including all of the top 13 devices. You all sure like your iPhones and iPads. Numbers 14-16 by the way are Samsung Galaxy devices which in total account for under 3% of our mobile audience’s total usage.

Families are much more likely to have an Apple device than an Android device

• Apple phones are just easy to use. Pick it up, and the UX (user experience) is entirely intuitive. Even for kids.
• Apple offers more app options (more on that below)
• iOS apps are more beautifully designed, easy to use, and easy to find and evaluate
• Apple offers excellent parental controls
• Families enjoy the very good Apple Family Sharing functionality, which launched two full years before Google Play Family Library
• There’s the hand-me-down factor: Apple mobile devices last long enough that parents are handing down older iOS phones and tablets to their kids as they upgrade their own devices.

Shoppers are more likely to have an iOS device

People are more likely to shop, bank, and generally manage their lives from their phones. They are younger, have higher education, and higher incomes also spend a lot more time on their mobile device. So it makes sense that if you are developing a shopping app or a life management app you will start by developing for Apple device users.

iOS apps are easier to review and recommend

• Android apps have to work across so many different devices, brands, screen sizes and resolutions. That’s why you may notice on Google Play app reviews, that a Motorola user may have a different experience than a Samsung Galaxy user, than an ASUS user, than an LG user, than an HTC user and that even the Galaxy user experience can be different from device to device.
• When we recommend an app, we want to feel good about our recommendation and not offer lots of caveats for app versions that we haven’t yet tested or that have spotty reviews by other users.
• When we recommend an iOS app, there aren’t too many times we have to add a caveat like “it’s not yet optimized for iOSX.”  In fact, those app updates come pretty quickly after iOS updates. Once in a while we do say, “it’s available on iPad but not yet for iPhone” or vice versa, however you can still use iPhone apps on iPads, even if it’s not optimized for size/resolution.

Developers prefer the iOS platform

Here are some reasons that developers prefer iOS

• It’s easier to make an iOS app look better, since design is a key part of Apple’s DNA. The Verge even reports that Google’s own apps are better on iOS than on Android.
• iOS users are more likely to pay for apps. That means more profit for the developer, hopefully.
• Android users are more likely to use a pirated free versions of apps over the original. So, less profit.
• Developing for Android is more complex because of fragmentation (explained above in #3). Not just across brands and devices, but different operating systems. Currently, only 4.6% of Android users are on OS 8.0/8.1 Oreo, which was released in summer of 2017, with a lot of users still using Nougat or Marshmallow OS. In comparison, around 80% of iOS users are now on iOS 11, which  was released last September.
• Fragmentation makes Android app development and testing more expensive ,and even prohibitive for small developers. One study indicated that developing Android apps required as much as 189% more lines of code and up to 156% more time spent coding.
• Android apps require more resources to support them after launch, for every new device or OS that’s launched, especially if there are consistent bugs with specific devices