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Old Jun 29, 2012 | 8:12 pm
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Originally Posted by dawk
Also, it's cheaper to develop application for iOS. Variety of Android devices makes especially the test phase quite complicated. To create polished product that will work on any Android handset is not an easy thing.

It is not going to change for a while - only if the application is a success on iOS, it would then be slowly ported to Android.
Your take is spot on. 5-6 devices, 4-6 variants of operating system vs 600+ devices and God knows how many OS forks.

Don't believe it? Check this out: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/thi...id-looks-like/
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