{"id":10371,"date":"2014-12-21T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:55:01","slug":"2015-the-year-of-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/2015-the-year-of-android\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: The Year of Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2014\/12\/17\/2015-the-year-of-android\/\">Russell Ivanovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2014\/12\/17\/2015-the-year-of-android\/\"><p>Firstly screen sizes on Android are actually <em>less <\/em>fragmented on Android than iOS. If you don&rsquo;t understand why, or don&rsquo;t believe me then you need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2014\/07\/08\/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myth\/\">this<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2014\/08\/23\/the-rumoured-ios-screen-fragmentation\/\">this<\/a>. Secondly platform fragmentation is largely not a concern anymore. If you launch an app today you can target Android 4.1 and above, and have access to far more users than the entirety of the iOS platform. If you really want to go Android 5.0 only, you can do that too. All of the Nexus devices, as well as high profile ones from LG, Motorola and many others are currently seeing Android 5.0 being rolled out to them.<\/p><p>So if I can convince you that there&rsquo;s money to be made, that fragmentation is not as bad as people think it is, what&rsquo;s left? To me the next most important thing is how the App Store on the platform works.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And that&rsquo;s just the high profile developers. I shudder to think of how many small developers, with no contacts in the media are just being crushed on a daily basis. Do I see those things on Android? Nope. The only place I&rsquo;ve seen Google crack down is on apps that download from YouTube and apps that do nefarious things. The first is against YouTube&rsquo;s TOS, clearly so, and the second is obvious. I can&rsquo;t tell you just how refreshing it is to push &lsquo;publish&rsquo; on a brand new app or update, and see it in the store an hour later.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Ivanovic: Firstly screen sizes on Android are actually less fragmented on Android than iOS. If you don&rsquo;t understand why, or don&rsquo;t believe me then you need to read this, followed by this. Secondly platform fragmentation is largely not a concern anymore. If you launch an app today you can target Android 4.1 and above, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,91,130,101,784,31],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-business","tag-google-play-store","tag-ios"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10372,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}