[alexbanks]

Source?

[kick]

"App Store made almost twice as much as Google Play in 2018"

https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven...

    Market Share     2018
    Android         85.1%
    iOS             14.9%

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os

[willmacdonald]

As for paid versions of Monument Valley, sales from the iTunes App Store far outpace sales on other marketplaces. Purchases on iOS account for 73 percent of Ustwo's $14.4 million of revenue, while only 17 percent of that total revenue came from Google Play.

https://www.polygon.com/2016/5/20/11724058/monument-valley-s...

[leppr]

This particular data point is irrelevant since the game launched on Android one year after its iOS debut, losing the novelty and marketing factors.

[prepend]

Do you think it was a random factor that had it debut on iOS.

Despite far fewer devices, the Apple App Store has always made more revenue than Android. The most recent real numbers [0] I could find show this is a big difference.

I always assumed that’s why app devs roll out on iOS first.

[0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/11/as-usual-apples-ap...

[leppr]

I didn't contest the overall conclusion, but as engineers and entrepreneurs we normally have a propensity to disregard binary thinking. The numbers in your link are useful to predict expected revenue from an iOS vs an Android exclusive. The 73/17 ratio from the parent post is not, but could be misleading to someone who didn't know the app's release schedule.

[bnchrch]

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-users-spend-twice-apps...