{"id":14536,"date":"2011-03-10T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14536"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T19:27:49","slug":"android-vs-ios-revenue-comparison-by-game-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/10\/android-vs-ios-revenue-comparison-by-game-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Android vs. iOS revenue comparison by game maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloadsquad.switched.com\/2011\/03\/09\/android-games-more-lucrative-and-addictive-than-ios\/\">DownloadSquad<\/a> shares the revenue comparison for the Pocket Legends game, which is exactly the same on iPhone and Android. \u00a0Never-the-less, for some reason, it generates\u00a0substantially\u00a0more revenue on Android. \u00a0Why could that be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/10\/android-vs-ios-revenue-comparison-by-game-maker\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue.jpg?fit=600%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,179\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"android ios pocket legends revenue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue.jpg?fit=600%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14537\" title=\"android ios pocket legends revenue\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue-500x149.jpg?resize=500%2C149&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue.jpg?resize=500%2C149&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/android-ios-pocket-legends-revenue.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t think it is. \u00a0I can&#8217;t know for sure, but I suspect that it has to do with the quality of applications on Android. \u00a0There are many promising applications of course, but I don&#8217;t think they had the time yet to get polished to the level their iPhone counterparts did. \u00a0I&#8217;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. \u00a0Maybe that is because iPhone had more time. \u00a0Maybe that is because Apple is setting a high standard and tougher censorship. \u00a0Maybe that is because money are more naturally involved. \u00a0Maybe, of course, that is not so at all and I am completely off the charts.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>DownloadSquad shares the revenue comparison for the Pocket Legends game, which is exactly the same on iPhone and Android. \u00a0Never-the-less, for some reason, it generates\u00a0substantially\u00a0more revenue on Android. \u00a0Why 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/10\/android-vs-ios-revenue-comparison-by-game-maker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Android vs. iOS revenue comparison by game maker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1486,1968,2400],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-apple-iphone","tag-business","tag-google-android"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13484,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/20\/day-in-brief\/","url_meta":{"origin":14536,"position":0},"title":"Day in brief","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I favorited a YouTube video -- A day in the life of GMP on Twitter http:\/\/youtu.be\/aulazCNbaDQ?a # Browser app stores are just bookmark managers on steroids. 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