[skidooer]

What is interesting is driving force behind so many more developing for Android. What is the cause?

* It is not the profit.

* It is not the user base. Unless your app only appeals to smartphone users, iOS outsells Android by leaps and bounds.

It is, perhaps, an indication that Android is winning in the minds of geeks who go on to write their own software for the platform they use, while the average Joe continues to use iOS and is willing to pay someone else to write the software.

[flyosity]

Perhaps, but, the downside, is that free Android apps that make no money don't really pay your bills. Doing apps on the side is one thing, quitting your job and working on Android apps full-time is quite another. I don't see many posts about developers doing the latter.

[martythemaniak]

" iOS outsells Android by leaps and bounds"

No it doesn't.

[skidooer]

Source? From what I can gather, Android barely outsells the iPhone alone. The iPad and the iPod touch sell millions more.

[edw]

At least three people down-voted skidooer's comment; why? What is going on with the vindictive voting around here lately? A lot of down-voters complain about comments not being sufficiently polite and deferential when disagreeing with fellow commenters, but they fail to see that their petty down-voting is arguably just as anti-social and perhaps more damaging to the community.

[moultano]

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/48744.php

"Android Market Share Surpasses Apple's IOS Globally for First Time"

[allwein]

1) This article has nothing to do with Market Share. What they measured was the share of ad impressions for a single ad network (InMobi).

2) This article doesn't even get the OS name right, still referring to it as "iPhone OS" instead of iOS.

3) This doesn't support your argument in response, since it's only measuring iPhone devices, and not other iOS devices like iPod Touch and iPad.