As Apple's stock price fall, do you think app store will be affected?

[outqube]

the stock always goes through a couple corrections. I think people over react to news, but if you look at their numbers that is where the truth is.

everyone should be long apple!

[Teknikal]

Originally Posted by crunc

Yet people still seem complain that the Android app store is crappy. My son's Android certainly has a pretty crappy selection but he doesn't have a cutting edge phone so that is a big part of that, but some of the games he does have are not the same and are far less complete. One that comes to mind is Pocket God. Perhaps even abandoned? So I guess it's there, but not in full form.

Well out of the 750,000 apps on iTunes only about a third of them have actually had a single download so that doesn't exactly say their all high quality apps to me.

[MidianGTX]

It was always pretty obvious this was going to happen. No company can keep going up indefinitely, everything peaks. What really matters is how far things drop and where they level out.

[psj3809]

Originally Posted by vinapen

developers deserting, in fact this is the effect.

At the end of the day devs will go to wherever they can make the most money. So even though freemium is 'evil' if devs make a lot of money for that they'll keep supporting iOS apps

My fear is for the small team of devs who create apps for $2, people dont buy them, wait for price drops (or free) and these devs eventually think 'cant make that much money here, we'll move to Android instead....'

We need to make sure devs keep developing for ios, buy their cheap games at the released price so they get more money and want to keep producing apps for iOS.

[crunc]

Originally Posted by Teknikal

Well out of the 750,000 apps on iTunes only about a third of them have actually had a single download so that doesn't exactly say their all high quality apps to me.

I am not arguing that all the apps on the iOS app store are quality - of course there is junk too. The good devs are continuing with iOS, and supporting their apps there. Android has had the market share advantage for some time now but it hasn't resulted in an exodus of iOS developers.