Is this VHS v's Betamax or Cassette v's 8 track all over again?

[astro]

I have just had an iphone app made and it is about to go to the apple istore for approval. Should go live in a couple of weeks. But I am now thinking of android and Microsoft app systems. The guy who made the apple app has no experience of other technologies. I was recently told that world wide there are 33,000 different technoligies many of which do not work on other makers hardware/equipment.

My legs went to jelly at the concept of "overworking"

I note Dave Sawyer was talking app wars a while back, but I did not want to get wrists slapped for topping an old thread. So are there any easy peasy tutorials for total idiots out there on Android and Microsoft app development I can take a peak at and make a pathetic attempt to develop myself.

Is it worth the effort or are one or two systems about to disappear into the void that is redundancy in other peoples opinions

/astro (nee Pooh bear of little brain)

[deepsand]

Well, while I can't offer up any of the sought after tutorials, I can say that I find no reason to believe that either iOS or Android are going to vanish in the foreseeable future. As for MS, IMO the jury is still out.

[mjtaylor]

I think the iphone platform will be around for a while, too.

Do feel free to reference old threads in a new one if you feel it would help.

[DaveSawers]

I found that developing for both Android and Windows is easier than developing for iPhone. I put one app up on all three platforms. I get more than 10 times as many sales on iPhone than I do on Android and get hardly any sales at all on Windows. I think it is worth developing a version for Android, but I wouldn't bother about the others for now.

Android development uses Java which is not a difficult language to learn. I suggest you download Eclipse and the SDK and work through some of the tutorials. If you find it too hard to convert the iPhone app, maybe I can help you out.