Alas, I don’t know how many times I need to repeat the same thing for you to actually read the real meaning. You are still thinking about the commercial developers, who earns money on selling apps or ad spaces in the apps. I am talking about the developers who give their apps for free, as a support method for their real businesses.
All of the examples you gave are big businesses, and are all US businesses. iPhone’s market share in the US is around 40%.
You need to think about the businesses with less than 500 employees, or even less than 200 or even 100 employees. There are hundreds of thousands of those small businesses outside the US (and England), where iPhone’s market share is well below 10% now.
Yeah I get it... small businesses who make free apps to support their businesses.
I've been talking about worldwide iOS penetration... but you seem to be giving me highly-localized examples.
So let's look at one country... Brazil.
Android has almost 90% quarterly market share in Brazil... while iOS has less than 10%
If you just went by those numbers... you'd think a small Brazilian company probably shouldn't put too much effort into making iOS apps.
But usage share is a somewhat different story... with Android having 70% usage share... and iOS 20%
Guess what... there are iPhones and iPads in Brazil. There is an Apple store in Rio de Janeiro. Maybe only wealthy people in Brazil have iPhones and iPads... but they're there. And they make up 20% of mobile usage in Brazil.
Wouldn't a small Brazilian company want their free local app in the hands of wealthy customers? Whether it's a bank, a restaurant, a store, whatever... wouldn't they want iOS users to have their app?
Of course they do. They want their app in as many hands as possible... including wealthy iPhone owners.
Even though Android has 90% quarterly market share and 70% usage share in Brazil... you can't leave iOS out of the mix. It's still very important.
And there are more iPhones and iPads added every day in Brazil... increasing the iOS user base.
So that's why I can't understand why small businesses in Brazil will stop making apps for iOS. Or any country around the world.
There will always be more Android users than iOS users in almost every country. But that doesn't mean iOS should be a forgotten platform.
iOS has more than enough of a user base in countries around the world. So to ignore iOS would be crazy.