Audioboo, voice recording app, was once a darling of the app world. It has gone a little more quiet of late, as a rush of other apps, such as Sound Cloud, have also entered the space. Now, it is taking the Android version of its app open source, as it prepares to launch a premium, paid version of its app for the iOS public. Mark Rock, Audioboo’s founder and CEO, told paidContent that the decision to make its Android app was not a light one, but that it was a necessary step in managing the app for a company that only has five full-time employees. Why open source? Marc Rock told paidContent that while the company has always developed the iphone app in-house, it had to outsource the build of the Android app. “We effectively gave it to developers and said, “look at iPhone and copy it. But that’s far from ideal.” The app was first developed in 2009, at a cost of between £30,000 and £40,000, he said. Similar strategies were taken with its Symbian and Windows Phone apps. But since then, as Android has grown, he said it has become increasingly more difficult and expensive to make it a workable app across all of the many Android flavors and devices that have hit ti market. “As android fragments, with ranges like Samsung’s Galaxy devices, and the HTC devices, it’s really difficult for us to keep up with developments. Now the developer community out there can update and change it.” There is also a question of where the business is for Audioboo today. Rock said that today most of the audio that the company captures today come from iOS devices. Android, he said, accounts for one in each 50 streams. (And it should be noted that streams from the Symbian
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