Hey, this is the Daily Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, I wanna talk about the difference between Apple and Google for app developers.
Ok, so this morning I decided once again to do the video outside, to go for a little drive
and pull over to the side of the road before I head into the office.
today I wanna talk a little bit about the differences between Apple and Google for app
developers.
I've already established this week that I am upset with Apple because they rejected
another app.
I've done so many apps with them, it's just something I expect! When I submit an app to
the App store, I think it's like a 50 50 percent chance of it actually going through these
days!
It's ridiculous, it is absolutely ridiculous the way it is.
And I started thinking about...I thought I would talk about the differences between the
Apple app store and Google play for new app developers that are just getting into this,
so you know what to be prepared for.
And I think, the biggest thing between Apple and Google is the mentality, which is that
Google wants me to be there.
Google wants app developers.
The more apps Google can have, the better.
They'll reject it if you break the rules, if they find that you're doing something wrong
they will take it out because you're damaging the platform, but Google wants you to be there.
To Apple, the app developer is almost a nuisance.
This may be unfair, I'm sure if I had Angry Birds or some big million download apps, they
might be a bit nicer to me but this is just the way I've always found it.
One of the things about Google is I'm constantly getting contacted by Google with new events.
At one point I remember, when my first app was getting quite a few downloads, they contacted
me and said "hey, we would like to give you a consultant, put a consultant on you so we
can talk a little bit about how you can improve ad performance", and that was my first talking
with an AdMob representative.
Not everybody gets this, there are probably hundreds of thousands of app developers, I
don't know what the actual stat is, so they can't see everybody but they are.
They do want you to be there.
They're always improving the Google Play platform, they're giving you lots of reporting tools.
Now the app store is improving too regularly, but not the same amount.
I have so much trouble with Apple that I never got the impression that they actually want
me to be there.
I feel like they tolerate me.
They tolerate me as an app developer, they say "we have an app for that, we have all
these apps on the app store" - they like to talk about how many apps there are but to
me, I might be jilted, but anybody who's ever used iTunes connect versus the Google Play
developer console knows that there's a better focus on developers on the Google Play developer
console, and the iTunes connect is just a terrible user experience.
If you're an Apple fanboy, you might disagree with that but that is just definitely my opinion.
What do you guys think?
I know a lot of people who watch this channel are Android only developers, but the reason
I buy this stupid iPhone, which I don't actually want - I'd rather have the Pixel 2 as my day
to day device - is because I need it to test iOS 11 applications.
My other test phone no longer works.
So I'm fully in, I have to spend money on an organisation that I just....I am buying
stuff from a company that doesn't like me as a developer.
That's the way it feels.
I might be a bit jilted, let me know what you guys think.
If you just do Apple stuff, you might think it's a great user experience, if you do Apple
and Google play, for me I've always found Google Play to be a much better developer
experience.
It's not just because they don't do reviews - if they did reviews I think they would be
better at it!
And of course because they don't do reviews, Google Play is so much more crowded.
Like I said, apps never die, they just sort of fade away.
A good app never dies, it just fades away!
Whereas on Apple , if you don't renew your developer account like if it's just not worth
it, they go away, they upgrade to iOS 11, and if you didn't keep up with it they go
away.
So Apple is very good at culling the old stuff.
But you know, I guess it's just my opinion.
Let me know what you guys think!
If you develop for both, do you find this?
Do you find that Apple tolerates you and Google Play actually wants you to be there?
Because that's the way that I've always thought of it, and that's the way that it seems to
me.
So anyway, that's it for today, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow!