Comments on: Admob Report : Android Captured 2% of US Market Share in Two Months http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2009/01/admob-report-android-captured-2-of-us-market-share-in-two-months/ Wed, 25 May 2011 13:51:51 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Corey http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2009/01/admob-report-android-captured-2-of-us-market-share-in-two-months/#comment-181 Corey Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:24:22 +0000 http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2009/01/admob-report-android-captured-2-of-us-market-share-in-two-months/#comment-181 Wasn't the G1 released in October/November? How does this application have 6k users on a platform that hasn't been distributed yet? Wasn’t the G1 released in October/November? How does this application have 6k users on a platform that hasn’t been distributed yet?

]]> By: Litta Fella http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2009/01/admob-report-android-captured-2-of-us-market-share-in-two-months/#comment-179 Litta Fella Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:13:42 +0000 http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2009/01/admob-report-android-captured-2-of-us-market-share-in-two-months/#comment-179 I'm not convinced by what is claimed here. Looking closely at the chart on Medialets site, you can see in the top-left corner "Closest Cup v1.0" -- presumably this chart show the stats collectd for that app -- Closest Cup. There is NO correlation between stats for any given app and the user base between two separate platforms. As an aside, I couldn't find Closest Cup in the iPhone App Store or the Android Market. Perhaps they used "Closest Cup" as a fake name, to conceal the identity of the app that the chart actually corresponds to. Further to this, I'm not convinced by Medialet's claim that "the next generation of innovative apps are going to be on the Android platform". Certainly apps on Android have the potential to be more advanced than those on the iPhone -- simply because developing for the iPhone is more primitive -- but more innovative? That's a totally different thing! There hasn't yet been a single innovative app for either platform. Apart from Enkin for Android, literally not one other app makes me correlate it with "innovation". Let's see what is revealed once the paid apps are allowed into the Android Market -- but based on what is available for the iPhone, which already is a paid market place, the probability is low... like, near zero. Another thing re: the next generation of innovative apps being on Android... um, has Medialets heard of Palm Pre and webOS??? I’m not convinced by what is claimed here. Looking closely at the chart on Medialets site, you can see in the top-left corner "Closest Cup v1.0" — presumably this chart show the stats collectd for that app — Closest Cup.

There is NO correlation between stats for any given app and the user base between two separate platforms. As an aside, I couldn’t find Closest Cup in the iPhone App Store or the Android Market. Perhaps they used "Closest Cup" as a fake name, to conceal the identity of the app that the chart actually corresponds to.

Further to this, I’m not convinced by Medialet’s claim that "the next generation of innovative apps are going to be on the Android platform". Certainly apps on Android have the potential to be more advanced than those on the iPhone — simply because developing for the iPhone is more primitive — but more innovative? That’s a totally different thing! There hasn’t yet been a single innovative app for either platform. Apart from Enkin for Android, literally not one other app makes me correlate it with "innovation". Let’s see what is revealed once the paid apps are allowed into the Android Market — but based on what is available for the iPhone, which already is a paid market place, the probability is low… like, near zero.

Another thing re: the next generation of innovative apps being on Android… um, has Medialets heard of Palm Pre and webOS???

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