It's interesting that Kevin Rose always launches his apps on ios first. In my experience it just seems that it's much easier to launch and iterate on android because you don't have the 2 week apple review process. With Google Play, you can pretty much launch a new app version every day, seeing what works and what doesn't.

And the article didn't really mention about tiiny. What's happening with that? Is it still alive?

It's been very long since those reviews actually took 2 weeks. It's 5 days now http://appreviewtimes.com

And it's really a super easy process, I'm sure that speed/ease of development and team experience is the major deciding factor.

Plus, in this particular case, I can imagine that iOS uses are more interested in luxury watches.

Hmm. Not very exciting. Clearly only in the "news" because it's Kevin Rose throwing more spaghetti on the wall. I'm really over this cult of personality that seems to be the religion of Silicon Valley. At this point, Kevin Rose could introduce a fart tracker app and it would get a TechCrunch writeup.