Android vs. iOS revenue comparison by game maker

DownloadSquad shares the revenue comparison for the Pocket Legends game, which is exactly the same on iPhone and Android.  Never-the-less, for some reason, it generates substantially more revenue on Android.  Why could that be?

As much as I would love it to be (I am an Android fan, remember?) due to superiority of Android platform, apps market, and users, I don’t think it is.  I can’t know for sure, but I suspect that it has to do with the quality of applications on Android.  There are many promising applications of course, but I don’t think they had the time yet to get polished to the level their iPhone counterparts did.  I’ve never owned an iPhone myself, but judging by a few quick tours my iPhone buying friends offered, I got the impression that there are more top-quality apps for iPhone.  Maybe that is because iPhone had more time.  Maybe that is because Apple is setting a high standard and tougher censorship.  Maybe that is because money are more naturally involved.  Maybe, of course, that is not so at all and I am completely off the charts.

What do you think?

Day in brief

Day in brief

Jetpack by WordPress.com

Here comes yet another product from Automattic and WordPress.com team – Jetpack.

This is a WordPress plugin that brings WordPress.com goodies to your self-hosted WordPress site.  The project is starting off with just a few, most requested, bits of functionality, but according to this blog post more is coming.

For launch we’ve brought eight of the most-requested features into Jetpack as one easy bundle: Hovercards, Stats, After the Deadline, Twitter widget, shortcodes, shortlinks, easy Facebook/Twitter/WordPress sharing buttons (Sharedaddy), and for our fellow math nerds, LaTeX. We’re excited about this initial set of features, but we’re even more excited for what’s coming down the road.

Foursquare releases version 3

Foursquare – an awesome location services that I use way more than I should – announces the release of Version 3.  They have a lengthy blog post explaining their reasons, goals, and changes.  And I have to say that it’s exciting.  I was slightly worried that they might give up given the Google Latitude check-ins competition, but apparently they are not.  Good for them!  Anyways, my phone still runs Android 2.1, so the newer Latitude is not available to me.  But the new Foursquare is.  And there is plenty of new fun, including leaderboards and Explore.