If Facebook stopped all their applications (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp) from working on iOS, who would lose more? Will most people start using other social media platforms more, or will they buy Android devices?
This is the reason why Apple keeps up with Facebook's bullshit. Do you think they would keep my developer account around if I got caught using it to sideload spyware[1]?
Of course not. But Apple can't afford kicking out Facebook or Google. Not even Uber[2].
All of these background deals and exeptions are not unprecedented, really. If I went to Target and wanted them to distribute my craft beer, I'd get worse terms than Heineken has.
As someone who's marketed consumer apps to iOS users (with in-app purchases) - you speak the truth.
One freemium iOS app I worked on did nearly 5X the revenue compared to its Android counterpart (others were at varied-but-similar multiples). I imagine the ad-supported business would reflect the same - the iOS audience is just too lucrative for advertisers to ignore.
edit to adjust multiple. I went back and looked it up.
Without FB apps, Google apps and Uber/Lyft, iOS would be a worse graveyard than MacOS store is right now. People would easily move from iMessage to WhatsApp.
Heck, if Google and FB banded up right now to reject iOS out of the blue, iOS would fall into an unclimbable chasm. Of course, that won't happen though.
that makes no sense though, people would most likely migrate to Android. You know why? Because their friends would have the app that they can't use without an Android phone. This pretty much killed Windows phones.
If Facebook stopped all their applications (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp) from working on iOS, who would lose more? Will most people start using other social media platforms more, or will they buy Android devices?