only wealthy have it) so only AnkiDroid is available. But recently used iphones are becoming easier to get， don’t have a laptop。
can’t replace the device with an Android for Anki. Or they are students and their parents have purchased the device so they can’t change it.) For typical apps this problem is not important because they are not customers in the first place. But Anki is a project with many volunteers and the commercial importance is very low。
previously a student must have a laptop and can’t get an iphone so this problem was quite rare， they can’t use Anki for desktop because they don’t have a laptop. (In short， but not recently.) If users only use AnkiWeb they can’t download shared decks and add media files. Media files are important for learning， About the price， so it’s impossible for a learner to pay $25 for an app in the first place. In such countries iphones are often not popular (because too expensive。
so I think it’s beneficial to support in some way such learners who can’t afford to buy a laptop. ，。
so the market share of iphones is increasing every year. Plus university students these days often have only an iphone or an ipad， so far the problem I hear most often is that the dollar is too expensive in their countries. In some countries $5 to $25 is equivalent to a month’s worth of food， so in such a case Anki is not their choice at all. (e.g. They happened to get a used iphone cheap。