We are part of the open source community. Android is licensed under the Apache open source license and therefore we should prefer Android unless iOS moves to an open license.

My thinking behind this was:

If both operating systems were equally open then we should strive to be neutral when dealing with multiple commercial outfits (If we can't deploy apps for both at the same time then we should prioritise by transparent criteria).

According to Wikipedia Android has the larger market share, and all other things being equal that would be a good reason to prioritise it.

According to Wikipedia Android is gaining market share, and all other things being equal that would be two good reasons to prioritise it. (More people will use it and as newer phones tend to have better cameras as we can hope for better quality images).

There are other operating systems out there, and in my view we should either be idealistically committing to support all of them or compromise on all that achieve a certain marketshare, or be practical and plan to support all that achieve a certain marketshare of phones with higher quality cameras.


Clearly phone camera quality has improved by a huge margin in the last decade or so, does anyone know if there are technical limitations that will prevent it eventually catching up with cameras?

WSC