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Developers not very fond of the Android

April 5th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

A survey done by Baird’s William Powers, shows if it is smarter to write applications for Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android, this survey of 250 working developers was just released on Monday and the results surprised me for sure. 71% of respondents said they were writing apps for Android vs. 2% for iOS. However none of the other platforms drew more than 27%. Although programmers who are writing for Androids find it the ecosystem to be very perilous and here are just some of the problems that can be seen with the Android.
• Device Fragmentation: 56% of developers on the Android stated that the OS fragmentation among the many Android devices was a meaningful or major problem, this percentage has increased over the past three months.
• Store Fragmentation: Developers seem to prefer a unified, single store experience like the Apple’s App Store. Whereas the Android app store is fragmented.
• App visibility: iOS is the front runner, then Blackberry and Android still getting poor marks in this category. Many developers are concerned about many junk apps in the Android ecosystem.
• Ease of development: iOS outscored Android, although both were considered far easier to develop for then the Blackberry OS.

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