iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer

Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by marquis on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:24PM (#2929834)

There are huge issues buying content on iTunes. Apple doesn't fix it or tell you, or help you get in touch with the developer to work around it.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by bignoggins on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:27PM (#2929849)

that may be true but I've never gotten a single customer e-mail complaint regarding this, whereas I get one nearly ever other day on android (where my sales are a small fraction of my total iOS app sales). So the problem appears to be significantly greater on android.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by Anti-Ratfish on Friday August 26, 2011 @05:01PM (#2929947)

Can you expand on that? What are the issues?

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by gte910h on Friday August 26, 2011 @06:05PM (#2930136)

One I can think of now: It doesn't tell you when someone with prior versions of the OS tries to download something you built with too high of a deployment target. This happens so often right now with the Verizon iPhone versioning being <4.3.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by Anti-Ratfish on Friday September 02, 2011 @05:18PM (#2955639)

Good point. That guy Marco from instapaper talked about this issue some time ago but didn't mention that apple makes it hard to specify a minimum os version in any kind of informed way.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by shinratdr on Saturday August 27, 2011 @01:47AM (#2930894)

For instance?

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