Neither Android nor Graphene have a tenth of the musical instruments, effects, sequencers, etc. available to them that ios does. The closed nature of the App Store allows a software ecosystem beneficial to audio software developers. Eliminate that, eliminate the reason for developers to create these instruments.

There are no perfect platforms, there are only tradeoffs. The iOS tradeoff apparently is preferred by these developers.

> The closed nature of the App Store allows a software ecosystem beneficial to audio software developers.

Why is that? Valve has sold plenty of games to Linux gamers and now has its Steam Machine, etc. So commercial software on open platforms is definitely viable.

I think this has a lot more to do with musicians with money to spend on this software are more likely to have iPhones than the closed platform.

Or they just want a large market share?

iOS does not have a tenth of the musical instruments, effects or sequencers that Windows VSTs have.

It's a turtles-all-the-way-down situation. I've toured with musicians before, and they are not jamming on iPads or plugging their DAC into an iPhone. They're running full-fat computers, real Omnisphere presets and the total Melodyne suite, not the pedestrian trial versions that the App Store sells.

> The iOS tradeoff apparently is preferred by these developers.

Could be a bit of momentum. Androids audio stack started out with a completely incompetent latency of near 500ms pre Jellybean, was made a bit less terrible through the years [1], and only becoming acceptable in 2021 [2], still near 2x of iPhone from over a decade before.

Apps like garage band were so impressive because could not function on Android.

[1] https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/02/17/10-years-later...

[2] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-...