Business Insider Intelligence has posted a new chart that compares the monetization of iOS vs. Android apps.
For a long time, Apple's mobile platform, iOS, blew away Google's Android in terms of developers generating revenue. Today, the gap between the two platforms is much more narrow. This chart from BI Intelligence shows where Android needs to catch up with iOS in terms of revenue.
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ratGT - November 28, 2013 at 9:00am
No, it's that Android is mainly an eco-system of poorer average users that couldn't afford a descent smartphone, hence they can not afford purchasing apps
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pampam - November 27, 2013 at 5:50pm
I think it is because android platform can be easily rooted, so users only installed cracked apps and dont want to spend money to buy the official app
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