The Macalope Weekly: Terrible mistakes

16.04.2011

For the slower students in the class, this week brought more data points indicating that market share and open-source unicorn candy flowers aren’t going to make developers drop iOS in favor of Android. Take that discusses the frustrations of Android developers (tip o’ the antlers to Patrick Jones).

The growth of Apple’s iOS remained stagnant, seeing only a 0.2 percent increase over the same period of time.

This is clumsily phrased. Unless you remember from the previous paragraph that Isaac is specifically talking about market share for smartphones , you’d probably think that sales of all iOS devices only grew 0.2 percent.

Fully 74 percent of respondents said developing for Apple’s iOS gave the best opportunities for paid-app revenues, and twice as many developers claimed their apps were more visible in Apple’s app store than they were in the Android Market.