I am encouraging every company we work with to...

I am encouraging every company we work with to invest as heavily in Android as they invest in iPhone/iPad. I actually think they should invest more because Android is still wide open and the iPhone/iPad marketplaces are leaderboard driven and the leaders have been established and it’s hard to crack into the top ten anywhere.

Fred Wilson: A VC.

(If Fred’s saying this, look for some cool things coming to Android.)

This is extremely important.

(via evangotlib)

Is it just me, or is this basically saying that iOS has a developed marketplace, and Android doesn’t? I’m having trouble thinking of a situation where there’s an established market for a product or service, and there aren’t clear leaders that need to be toppled - the question is, what takes more work: creating something that shifts an established marketplace, or creating something that is so compelling it builds it’s own marketplace? This is complicated by the fact that you can deliver nearly identical product features on both of these platforms, so the difference in product innovation can’t be earth-shattering.

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