Is the iOS development company sector at crossroads? |
Posted: October 16, 2019 |
You might have observed that whenever an application for any device is launched, it is marketed as it is available for the Apple app store for iOS and the Play store for android devices. For this simple reason there is a prolific boom in the numbers of iOS Development Company recently. This happens because the code base for Apple devices is different from android devices. Apps are nothing but a code similarly written as for software. These are set of instructions that command the processor of any device to complete the desired task. Apps make things a lot easier for us. Whether we need to listen to the music, want to know our heart rate, pay our bills, watch our favorite movies, and do shopping, etc. everything is just a click away. We owe this digital transformation to the father of computers, Charles Babbage. He was the one who came up with the ingenious idea of building the Analytical Engine and now the world knows the difference between computer science and software engineering. Application software has completely altered how things used to work half a decade ago. Although people had iOS it was not feasible as apple does not fraternize with other devices (pun intended). The cost of having an iPhone a decade ago was jaw-dropping. So, forget about apps! But, now when android was launched and smartphone market was overwhelmed with cheaper and smarter options, people bought them in a blink. Gartner is a US-based institution that conducts research on the trends in the IT market. According to its report android has a market share of 76.24% as against iOS 22.48%. Though the ratios have turned significantly so far they are not enough to make a difference as market share of android as against apple was 79% in the year 2013. Google claims that Android has 86% of the global operating system market share as per its statistics of the year 2018. Recently, the creator of Android declared that there are almost 2.5 billion monthly active Android users at any given point of time. As we all know about the Chinese explicit aversion towards the US tech giant Apple, android’s share in the country is 76.4%. Still, app developers launch apps in the version compatible with the Apple store first or even exclusively for it. Therefore, some apps are only available for iOS and not for other operating systems. As a matter of fact, in 2013, you could not play Plants v. Zombies, Worms 3 and Clash of Clans unless you owned an Apple iPhone or tablet or Mac. There are many top Apple apps that are available for iOS and not for android as per the report of Business Insider India, like:-
What makes iOS beat Android? Even after statistics show that there are more android users than iOS, iOS Development Company is the flourishing. The reason is simple. Sometimes branching out bites you back. Developers face more challenges while coding an app for android as compared to iOS because it is not cost-effective and complex. At a given point in time, Apple has six to eight types of devices as compared to android which has a whopping number of 12000 devices. So, it takes no time to do the math that developers don’t want their inbox getting overwhelmed with responses as to bug fixes being faced by some android users having different models. Tables are turning slowly. Apple devices are not as rare as they used to be. The US tech giant is increasing its business gradually as the statistics show. So, there is a long way for the iOS development company sector to tread!
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