Market research firm IDC survey Appcelerator and, apple has become the most popular application developers to welcome the platform, Android platform lost some attractive, blackberry (the Po) platform is slowing significantly.
The survey asked whether you are interested in developers for different types of equipment development application. The results showed that, despite the rapid rise of equipment sales Android, but developers to the interest of the Android platform has fallen.
Appcelerator analyst Michael gold (Mike King) says, because different hardware manufacturers in a different way to use Android system, the platform fragmentation phenomenon is very obvious. This and apple iOS system is different. He said: "platform fragmentation lead to developers interested, and Google down (the Po) seems to have no good way."
Developer interest is a useful indicator of, can be used to judge a platform for support. When consumer is buying a smart phones will usually hope to complete a variety of mobile phone of tasks, including browse news and share price, the record running distance, and find a restaurant, etc.
The survey shows at the same time, application developers think, due to the large user base, Google's latest social media platform can eventually catch up with Facebook. Google last year launching its social networking Google +, but has so far failed to shake Facebook's lead. Facebook users already close to 900 million, of which half for mobile users.
In the poll, two-thirds of respondents expected, Google will depend on a range of services, such as Gmail, search engine, Google maps and YouTube, finally caught up with Facebook. Mike Kim said: "the developers will help Google in in the mobile and social media market get extra advantage."
In addition, 90% of survey respondents said they were interested in for iPhone or iPad application development, 80% of respondents expressed an interest in for Android mobile phone application development, and are willing to for Android tablet computer application development of respondents proportion was only about 2/3.
Most developers say they plan on the mobile applications using at least part of the meta code, this will help get rid of application store application limit, expanding coverage.
The figures show, to Windows Phone 7 (micro Po) interested in developers 37%, and for blackberry interested developers have dropped to less than 16%, less than three months before the 20%. The survey on January 25 to 27, and February 21 to 23 days, when RIM Playbook tablet computer to released the QNX system updates. In the next generation of mobile phone RIM plans use QNX system. Mike Kim said: "the developers to QNX system becoming ambivalent."
There were 2200 application developers took part in the survey, 38% of them came from Europe, and 34% from North America, 28% from other regions.
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