Hey, this is Overpass Insights! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, let's answer the question are iOS developers going to die off?
Alright, so today, I want to answer a question that came in a couple of days ago from Saif Mukadam
Saif says, "Nice video, sir. I am an iOS developer and I want to ask you are iOS
developers will die because of Apple prices, because everybody's preferring
Android over iOS, because of crazy prices?" So, good question Saif. Will iOS
developers die out? To be honest with you, I don't think they will. We talked
a lot about Android's Market Share over iOS like globally, Android has like
nearly an 80% market share and iOS has only 20% and when I tell people that,
they're usually really surprised. In fact, I had a client call me just a few weeks
ago and they wanted their app to be done in iOS only because most people have
iPhones and I was like, "Actually, most people have Androids," and he was really
surprised by that. In fact, earlier this week, there was it was in the news
that iPhone sales have fallen like 17 percent in the last quarter which is
unprecedented. They're starting to go down, however, I talked to
a lot of iOS developers who only do iPhone and they're happy with it. They're
making lots of money, they're doing really well and so what I wanted to do
today was talk about market share in terms of applications. So, I said this
I throw this number out there a lot there's only 20 percent market share for
iOS, however, that statistic doesn't take in individual countries. So, last time we
did a video about this, we looked at StatCounter and the different market
shares over time. I want to do that again today, but I want to look at specific
countries. So, in some sub-countries, iOS has a preference in some countries it's
Android and as I've said before and I still believe this, you make
a bit. per user, you make more money on iOS than you do on Android, but you get a
lot more downloads on Android. So, every month, I make a lot more through Google
Play than I do from the App Store. But if you were to break it down per user I
make a bit more on the AppStore than I do on on
Google Play so have a look at my screen here up here we have stat counter which
is what we talked about before so this is just looking at the last year so and
this is a really good tool yeah I think you should explore it yourself take a
look at what it looks like in your region break it down but here you can
see we've got at the top we've got the different market shares per operating
system we got android with seventy four point eight five percent so it used to
be a bit higher just a few months ago a fact if we look up here we can see
earlier in the year we had 77% 32% it drops a little bit goes back up but
remain pretty consistent over the past year and down here we have iOS which
were at the moment we're at 22 point nine four percent but it pretty much
stays the same was up to twenty four percent in November then December and it
keeps going you know we have the other ones kayo s which is I think it's a I
think it's an open source OSI I looked up I looked it up I was it I'm not
interested enough to do up but developing for it used to get Windows
over here with this the 0.28% right but it's the two big ones that I'm always
concerned with we always do iPhone and Android applications and of course crop
cross-platform if we could do it so we can serve both of them but so you look
at this if you're thinking about what technology to get in do you think
obviously I'm gonna be an Android developer if I'm gonna release an app
obviously you I'll just release it to Android why bother with iOS but it's
this is very much the entire population so that the nice thing about StatCounter
is you can go through and drill down on things so if you go on edit chart data
what we're gonna do is we look at the United States let's go to the United
States which is my biggest market even though I'm in the UK the United States
is the one that that I get the most from so if we look at the same chart up just
looking at the United States of America here you can see iOS is is top with 52%
but just barely we're looking nearly at a equal split I'm not really an equal
split I mean if you were voting Apple would win but you can see it's pretty
much remained on top the whole time and we talked about people are gonna be able
to spend more money on in-app purchases in my experience the u.s. spends more
than say India or or other countries so so we look at that if we look at some
other ones if we look at the United King as well the United Kingdom we see a bit
more of a split here where we see it sort of crosses over a little bit and
we're seeing you know the big brand start to take over right and the Canada
is the same so we're talking about the the more affluent countries or the the
countries with a lot more disposable income so Canada say alphabetical order
I'll learn it one of these days so you can see Canada's kind of the same thing
we've got we've got I o S on top here and it's pretty much stays the same if
you're if you're gonna release to the Western world or to well if you're gonna
us the english-speaking world iPhone is still something that's very valid but
it's at the point now where you should consider doing both of them if you're
gonna release an app at all right but let's have a look at some of the other
countries let's have a look at have a look at India and I'm just gonna pick
some at random but I encourage you to go through and have a look at the
StatCounter tool it's really easy to use upon clewd a link in the description but
you see India here we've got 90 percent Android iOS is only 2.75 percent so we
obviously would have a lot more handsets over there and everything would go let's
look at what other country should we look at let's look at let's look at
Japan which I haven't looked at this one earlier so Japan is heavily iOS so this
is something to consider when you're looking at this kind of stuff when we
talk about the 80 percent market share or nearly 80 percent market share that
Android has it would be very tempting to think that you could just ignore iOS
like I'm an Android developer I don't need to worry about the iOS side of
things but I've talked to a lot of iOS developers who aren't interested in
Android even though they might have more users and more users as good for ad
revenue but they might have more users but they don't they're not interested
they're not getting the same in-app purchases they're not getting the same
purchases as they do on Android as they do on iPhone so it's something to
consider so to answer your questions I Eve know iOS developers are not dead iOS
developers are thriving iOS developers are doing just fine thank you very much
if you asked and like the ones that I talked to that they're good don't worry
about us we're good right we have problems with 4.3 they have problems
with app app approvals and every thing the same way we do with Google
Play but but but they're doing okay so don't I think you'll be fine sigh if you
specialize in that get really really good at it so anyway that is it for
today I'll talk to you guys again next time
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