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It has been observed that app accessibility tends to be better on the iPhone. There are a number of technical reasons people like to point to for why this is.

I’d like to raise one that is not technical at all: the app quality, in general, is better on the iPhone. If you see an app that is available for IOS and Android, and you do a comparative, the IOS app will come out ahead most of the time. But why is this, then?

I posit this is because most of the people who work in “big tech” have disposable income, and the most common phone of the well-off is by far the iPhone. In other words, the apps are better on iOS because most app developers use IOS as their daily driver.

I don’t have any stats to point to to prove this, so you’ll just have to trust me. Even at Google, where you would think the Chromebook would reign supreme, the macbook was still dominant. Anecdotally and very unscientifically, I’d say about half of their SWE’s use iPhones as personal devices. Compare that to Apple, which, from what I’ve heard, has almost no one working there who uses Android for anything other than testing–I mean, why would you?