[mcantelon]

>This is like being a Rock and roll musician in the late sixties. This is like being a film maker in the seventies following Scorsese, Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas (when he was a saint).

That's a hilarious sell. Better not mention the bigger, even faster growing Android market.

[ricardobeat]

Faster growing, copycat infested, low paying market?

Not that you shouldn't develop for it (hell, >1 million activations/day), but the climate over there is very different.

[mcantelon]

Much bigger in the developing world which is where the economic center of gravity is shifting to. So better long-term prospects unless trends reverse. But, yes, copycats are likely a bigger problem in Androidland.

[ricardobeat]

It's bigger in all "first-world" countries too.

[tintin]

There is a lot of that 'climate' that you will never see. We are developing Android apps that will never see a Market Place. We just put them on the devices directly. Those apps are used by big companies. They are very specialized apps. Why Android? Because we don't need Apple to install the apps. And a lot of developers already know Java.

So, don't believe the hype.

[jonhendry]

There are also iOS developers whose apps will be directly installed by large companies, rather than going through an app store.

[mcantelon]

The ability to do this has always been - to me - the obvious advantage of Android over iOS, but this is the first time I've seen anyone bring it up.

[r00fus]

Because there is no advantage - Apple allows organizations to setup their own App delivery mechanism, which is fully secured - cost to entry is trivial compared to App dev and normal deployment costs.