With nearly 12% of visits to the alderleyedge.com web site from iPads last month, a number that continues to grow month after month, we felt it was time to provide a more convenient reading experience on this revolutionary device. We are pleased to announce that our alderleyedge.com app is now fully compatible with the iPad.
Our app on the Apple app store is now a universal app with both the iPhone app and iPad app bundled together into one download. When you run the alderleyedge.com universal app on a small-screened device, you'll see the iPhone version and when you run the app on your iPad, you'll see the larger, iPad-only version.
If you are one of our many avid users of our app on your iPhone this update also includes a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements and as such we recommend you download the update via the app store on your phone or via iTunes.
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With regards to Android, there does not appear to be a great many people with Android devices amongst our audience based on the numbers we have available.
You will see in the article above the iPad had reached the stage where it accounted for nearly 12% of visits to the web site, for comparison Android devices only account for 3.2%. All iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch) accounted for 20.4% of visits to the web site. Note that these numbers do not even take into account usage of our well established iOS app!
If I had to make an educated guess I would say Android has a market share of something like 5% of mobile net use around these parts and the dominance of iOS actually appears to be on the increase. The numbers simply do not justify the development of an Android app. The only way and Android app is likely to get developed in the short to medium term is if someone steps forward and offers to sponsor its development.
Thank you for your effort, which I know from Lisa takes many hours every week - I think she said about 80? That's real dedication!!
Android is not the future its here and now and its open!!!
"Microsoft's Surface plan means the world belongs to Android now!!!
Developers in these markets? They're betting big on Android.
Even in the developed world, demand for Android is outpacing iOS, at least by some measures. Dice.com, for example, reports a 302 per cent increase in job postings for Android developers between 2010 and 2011, versus a 220 per cent jump for iOS developers. Vision Mobile reports that over 75 per cent of those surveyed indicated that they're now supporting Android."
Irrespective of my personal opinion, if we see sufficient demand for an Android app for alderleyedge.com we will make one. But, as outlined in my earlier comments we see little evidence of that from the statistics we track.
And I cannot wait for a serious alternative to apple devices - I hate the damn things and the whole apple ethos.