“The facts have a pro-Apple bias”

App Developers Betting on iOS Over Android
[Via Daring Fireball]

Data from Flurry analytics:

Anecdotally, developers consistently tell us that they make more money on iOS, about three to four times as much. To be sure, we pulled a sample of in-app purchase data from a set of top apps with versions on both iOS and Android, comprising of several million daily active users (DAUs). Running the numbers, we find that, on average, for every $1.00 generated on iOS, the same app will generate $0.24 on Android.

The facts have a pro-Apple bias.

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If you want to make some money, sell it on the App store. If you want Google to make money, sell it on the Android Marketplace.

A developer would have to sell over 4 apps on Android to make as much as selling one on iOS.

The graph that tells many truths

Wonkbook: The GOP’s two conversations over taxes
[Via Ezra Klein]

There are two very different tax-policy conversations playing out in the Republican Party right now. In Washington, House Republicans are arguing with each other over how small of a temporary tax cut to give the middle class. Out on the primary trail, the Republican presidential candidates are arguing over how huge of a permanent tax cut to give the wealthy.

 

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Two of the plans increase taxes on the middle class while providing huge tax cuts for the 1%. Newt’s plan would give those Americans an average tax benefit equal to almost 7 years salary of a middle class household.

And none of those tax cuts are paid for. Meanwhile in Washington, the GOP refuses to provide tax cuts for the middle class unless they are paid for.

All of which leaves the Republican Party in an odd place: skeptical of a temporary tax cut for the middle class that carries a price tag in the low hundreds of billions of dollars and is fully paid for but apparently enthused over permanent tax cuts for the rich that cost trillions of dollars and aren’t paid for at all. That can’t poll well.

I would not expect it to poll well in a rational world.