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Eugen Rochko

We reached 10K downloads of the official Mastodon app for iOS!

17 comments
David Cross

@Gargron is this meaningfully transferring to net new users, or is this just conversion of existing users of the fediverse to a new client?

Acaii

@Gargron out of curiosity why did you focus development on iOS and not Android? Are there more Mastodon users on Apple's ecosystem or was it because Apple has a richer demographic?

Eugen Rochko

@Acaii It's quite simple, I use an iPhone, so I am more familiar with this ecosystem (although I used to publish my own apps on the Google Play Store many years back when I had an Android phone). I thought the selection of iOS apps for Mastodon was quite poor, with the best choices being behind a paywall (which is not very conductive to attracting new people). In contrast, I know that Android has Tusky (which I contributed the design to a few years back).

Eugen Rochko

@Acaii Another angle is similar to what you mentioned, Apple traditionally caters to creatives (artists, designers, musicians and so on) and that's the demographic I believe we need to attract to make the platform more worthwhile for everyone else.

healyn

@Gargron hey cool, we android folks will just sit around like a bunch of douchebags, i guess

Eugen Rochko

@healyn You should be used to doing that by now

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