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Evernote CEO says Android growth 1000%, iPhone at 150% over last 6 months

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 9th, 2010 at 8:34 AM
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The nice thing about the companies behind some of the most popular mobile applications, like Evernote, is that they get to see some interesting trends in the mobile space. Evernote CEO Phil Libin has seen tremendous growth with his app on the Android platform versus iPhone, and there may be some correlation with handset purchases and activations. Of course, it’s hard to say for sure, but at least we know that Android is catching up to the iPhone in terms of platform usage and app growth.

Libin says that in the last six months, Evernote downloads are up 1000% for Android, but only 150% for the iPhone. This puts the number of users on both Android and iOS platforms much closer to each other with the iPhone keeping a very marginal lead over Android.

As we saw in yesterday’s U.S. smartphone adoption forecasts, the Google mobile OS and iOS will have the lion’s share of the market by this time next year, virtually tying each other in terms of market share amongst smartphone users.

While the quality of apps for the Android has gradually improved over the past few months, it seems that iOS still has a clear lead in terms of app polish and features. Apps that are available on the Apple platform are often more feature-rich than the Android counterparts, and many new features being added to applications seem to grace the iPhone versions first.

But with the rapid growth in Google-powered handsets and the spike in overall market share, developers ought to give the platform as much focus as iOS has been getting over the last two years. As the Android Market improves and PayPal payments become easier for app purchases, I wouldn’t be surprised if this time next year the Google apps were doing just as well as iOS apps in terms of overall sales and growth.

[Via: Scobleizer]

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Marc Flores

Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.

  • http://twitter.com/krauthein Adriano Krauthein

    Percemptual values are hard to ‘see’ in cases like that. If there’s just 1 Android user, 1000% is almost nothing regarding to 150% of 1000000 of iPhone users.
    Another point is the large number of options to specific softwares. In iPhone I have tons of options for photo editing.. in Android maybe I only have 3 or 4, how can I compare the market share of hundred of options against just 4 of them?
    One more point: Is this particular software interesting? iPhone market is older and poor software tends to not live longer, Android as a newer market is intend to accept ‘anything’ for some time.

    btw, very nice topic.