Developers are losing interest in creating apps for Android because of the continued fragmentation of the operating system, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC between January and February. Its results show that interest in Android phone app development fell by nearly five percentage points over the past quarter to about 79 percent. Interest in Android tablets fell just over 2 percent to about 66 percent. Meanwhile, iOS remains the leading platform for devs, according to the study.
It's baffling how people can continue to claim that Apple does not suffer from fragmentation... and that's this is somehow a uniquely Android issue. The original iPhone and the iPhone 3g cannot be upgraded to Apple's iOS5. This means you have segments in that market using iOS4 and iOS5. The next major update is said to be leaving the iPhone 3gs behind as well... meaning 3 different OS fragments. Not every owner upgrades every year. This is a real situation.
And don't forget Windows phones. There's plenty of WinMo 6.1 and 6.5 units out there that are totally incompatible with the WP7 OS.
This article SHOULD have discussed the problem with Google's late payouts to developers, the percentages the developers are actually receiving compared to other platforms and other issues. Fragmentation is not the real issue here.
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Is Fragmentation Breaking the Android Dev's Will?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 22, 2012 05:00 AMDevelopers are losing interest in creating apps for Android because of the continued fragmentation of the operating system, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC between January and February. Its results show that interest in Android phone app development fell by nearly five percentage points over the past quarter to about 79 percent. Interest in Android tablets fell just over 2 percent to about 66 percent. Meanwhile, iOS remains the leading platform for devs, according to the study.
And don't forget Windows phones. There's plenty of WinMo 6.1 and 6.5 units out there that are totally incompatible with the WP7 OS.
This article SHOULD have discussed the problem with Google's late payouts to developers, the percentages the developers are actually receiving compared to other platforms and other issues. Fragmentation is not the real issue here.