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There's a slide in here which shows apple has ten times the app download revenues that android has: http://www.businessinsider.com/state-of-internet-slides-2012...

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This. From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

And mobile web usage isn't looking much better for Android: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

No doubt more and more phones in pockets will be running Android. But how many will really be used like smart phones?

Of course on Android it is easy to say 'show me the desktop version' of a site which uses a different UA which would show up as a desktop browser and not an Android phone.

> From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

To be more exact, this is the perspective of a developer looking to monetize their application by selling directly to users.

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