iPhone vs Android World Market Share in Near Future

[luniac]

Living in the U.S. has left me with the impression that iPhones are the cool 1%center smartphone while androids are for the poor peasants.

Market share statistics appear to corroborate that mindset with androids at around 80% and iphones at 14%.
http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-v-android-market-share-2014-5?op=1

Most real iPhones are sold in first world western nations and the US, while androids are saturating the third world.

However even with these numbers iPhone apps have always had more revenue vs android apps, but for how long?
http://bgr.com/2015/04/15/ios-vs-android-developers-revenue-apps/

The indian market is set to explode in the near future and surpass the U.S., with china already bigger.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...7-Q2-sales-up-44-IDC/articleshow/48440143.cms

As an independent app game developer these numbers are making me wonder whether I should eventually just dump iOS as a platform and fully focus on emerging Android markets for my games, would it be the smarter long term choice for a small developer like me?

Instead of working on an iOS version i can focus on android localization and becoming more culturally aware of foreign markets so my games appear more appealing.

For example, regarding the Indian market, i could make an infinite runner involving Hindu gods... or make an app about Buddhism.

It just seems to me that lucrative greener pastures are located in the emerging economies of the third world, while trying to break through in the U.S. may be a fool's errand.

 

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[splok]

Jux nadj siwipai ot e AT-cetif oQjupi atis xusvj up ewisehi dunqesif vu zuas ewisehi Epfsuof atis op Opfoe? Epf fu zua siemmz iyqidv vjev vu djephi nadj op vji pies gavasi? Emtu duptofis jux gix ug vjev 80% esi edvaemmz atoph xjev xi duamf duptofis nufisp vidj... Katv cideati vjiz'si vidjpodemmz atoph Epfsuof fuitp'v niep vjev vjiz dep sap zuas eqqt.

Iovjis xez, xovj vji vuumt eweomecmi vufez, pu sietup puv vu tvez dsutt-qmevgusn onu. Katv tiv vjopht aq tu zua dep mudemobi ietomz epf qatj zuas eqqt iwiszxjisi.

 

[luniac]

Jux nadj siwipai ot e AT-cetif oQjupi atis xusvj up ewisehi dunqesif vu zuas ewisehi Epfsuof atis op Opfoe? Epf fu zua siemmz iyqidv vjev vu djephi nadj op vji pies gavasi? Emtu duptofis jux gix ug vjev 80% esi edvaemmz atoph xjev xi duamf duptofis nufisp vidj... Katv cideati vjiz'si vidjpodemmz atoph Epfsuof fuitp'v niep vjev vjiz dep sap zuas eqqt.

Iovjis xez, xovj vji vuumt eweomecmi vufez, pu sietup puv vu tvez dsutt-qmevgusn onu. Katv tiv vjopht aq tu zua dep mudemobi ietomz epf qatj zuas eqqt iwiszxjisi.

Zie vjev't xjev O xet vjoploph.

 

[beatgoezon]

Gus ni epuvjis cipigov ug vji oUT nesliv ot vjev emvjuahj vjisi esi gixis oUT fiwodit, oUT atist esi nadj johjis raemovz atist vjep Epfsuoft op vji tipti vjev vjiz tqipf nusi nupiz, iphehi nusi xovj eqqt, epf vji oUT nesliv jet e johjis ipvsz cessois vu tadditt, mux raemovz eqqt, iwip og vjiz hiv eqqsuwif, fu puv qisgusn ximm ev emm op vji tvusi et dunqesif vu Epfsuof't nesliv, iwip tuni ug vji dseqqoitv eqqt tiin vu hiv taddittgam seplopht.

O'wi emtu sief epf puvodif gsun qistupem iyqisoipdi vjev vji siwipai gsun oUT eqqt ot ecuav 800% johjis vjep Epfsuof eqqt. O'wi ietomz tiip iyvsinimz johj DQN sevit (et johj et $1000/ qis 1000 onqsittoupt) xovj ep oUT eqq ug nopi.