Most iPhone apps are NOT free?

I was discussing getting an iPhone 5 with a friend of mine. According to this friend, most apps for the iPhone are not free.

Also, according to this friend, Most smart phones other than the iPhone have alot more free apps than the iPhone.

Is this true?

IPhone operates on ios while others mostly use android.
IOS usually gets the new apps first and it's App Store has better apps while android gets these after ios and most are free but not as good.
I prefer IOS, quality over quantity.

Yes it's true, but you can always get a demo/free versions of a paid game. The other thing is that there are a lot of "Awesome" free apps which are not even available at the play store or any other store, secondly in android there are apps which are not compatible with certain devices whereas in an iPhone All THE APPS ARE COMPATABLE with it so thats a big game changer. Thus there are many advantages and disadvantages of the apple apps store.

There are tons of free apps, it just depends where you look. The bottom line is I prefer paid apps anyways since free apps usually mean not maintained, limited, ads, etc as people don't work for free and won't put effort into something that is free.

Typhoon is also right, one iphone app runs on all iphones and ipad and ipod touches, no issues, while android is fragmented.

There are many free iOS app but not like those of androids. Most of the apps that are free in Android are paid apps in iOS.

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