“Every six months I’d take a look at the scope of the Android, and decide if it was time to start really looking at it,” Carmack said. “You’re just not making money in the Android space as you are in the iOS space.”

Aside from the profit gap, the gaming veteran also noted that “It’s just fun to develop on iOS.”

Long time Apple customers can feel free to savor the sound of a game developer praising Apple’s OS over the competition’s.

There are plenty of good reasons to code for Android. Maybe you like it. Maybe you want to make an app that you know Apple won’t approve. Maybe your ad scheme doesn’t care if the eyeballs are attached to bodies that actually buy things. Maybe you’re just . But iOS certainly seems to be the favored platform for actually making money, so it’d be nice if the usual cast of lazy pundits would stop pretending that market share is the only yardstick.