wesselkooyman

Maybe the Apple worshipping is over its peak! Until recently i lived in Paris, wherever you go in the tech/startup scene, it's an Apple-only world. I would literally sit there surrounded by 20-30 MacBook Air's and be the only non-Apple laptop! Made for lots of weird stares.

Hi! I'll give you a specific anecdote. One of our clients, Sensorly, is a crowd sourced mobile coverage map maker. On iOS their life is hell, because Apple doesn't expose the raw network strength and other data they need. I realize that that's not the average app, of course. Their iOS dev time much higher, for much less result.

This is exactly my point when i talk about the "tech bubble". iOS users keep telling themselves the numbers are somehow lying, and that their market is the early adopters, and that that market is decent sized. I don't think we appreciate how small that world is. But since it includes 90% of our direct peers, it feels bigger than it is.

Hi, i'm the author. The point i was trying to make is that all we know is that we're looking at an incomplete picture. App store revenue is by far not the only way to make money with an app - i use CRM apps as an example, but many SaaS platforms have a supporting app, and we're not measuring that revenue at all. Neither are we measuing ad revenue.

But i agree, there's lots of anecdotal evidence either way :)