This is silly. Their reasons boil down to: 1)Android is hard 2)Android is hard 3)Android is hard 4)Because android was too hard for us, nobody downloaded our app.
Let me add a rebuttal:
There are many hungry Android developers out there. Developers who do not whine about how Android is hard. Developers who have actually invested the time and effort to be good at Android development.
If you write iOS first, and your app is a big hit, these hungry developers will clone your app within days and soak up 75% of the market that you ignored. Since iOS is so easy, many of them will port to iOS just as quickly. Their Android success will have a network effect. The 75% that loves the clone on Android will tell their iOS friends who will then choose the clone over your app.
That results in you writing an article on hacker news about how some guy just cloned your Threes/2048 app and is now doing better than you.
I have no sympathy for developers who are unable to compete because Android doesn't make development as nice/easy as iOS.
Let me add a rebuttal:
There are many hungry Android developers out there. Developers who do not whine about how Android is hard. Developers who have actually invested the time and effort to be good at Android development.
If you write iOS first, and your app is a big hit, these hungry developers will clone your app within days and soak up 75% of the market that you ignored. Since iOS is so easy, many of them will port to iOS just as quickly. Their Android success will have a network effect. The 75% that loves the clone on Android will tell their iOS friends who will then choose the clone over your app.
That results in you writing an article on hacker news about how some guy just cloned your Threes/2048 app and is now doing better than you.
I have no sympathy for developers who are unable to compete because Android doesn't make development as nice/easy as iOS.