Who doesn't like venn diagrams? Ruffians and troglodytes, that's who. We happen to love them, and AppStoreHQ has put together a venn diagram showing the proportion of Apple and Android app developers, and those who code for both platforms.
It shouldn't come as a terrible shock that Apple's platform still draws the most attention. Out of the 51,972 app developers listed in AppStoreHQ's database, 43,185 only write for Apple's iOS. That breaks down to about 80 percent, compared to 17 percent who churn out code solely for Android (8,787). And those cross-platform developers? There are 1,412 of them, or 3 percent.
"We were actually impressed at the numbers of cross-platform developers," said Chris DeVore, AppStoreHQ founder. "And particularly the number of recognizable brand names that had already made the leap to Android: Gaemloft, Facebook, AOL, Amazon, Warner Brothers, Intuit."
More here.
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UndeniablyPC
July 07, 2010 at 7:21am
I swear I really wish people would stop blabbing about the damn Apple vs Android applications. Of course there are more developers for the damn iPhone OS, it has been around longer, can we say "a duh." Now, if you really want to do a Venn Diagram that actually has some friggen meaning, why don't you do a timeline for how many developers started at the beginning of the iPhone OS and for how many started at the beginning of the Android. Then do an analyses of how many at the current rate are to be projected with current Android adoption within the same timeline of the iPhone OS.
I Jedi
July 07, 2010 at 7:11am
Well, it really comes as no surprise to me about the article above; however, one must remember that a lot of developers, even if it is just a few thousand, are getting sick of Apple's ways of locking down the platform so tightly, and having a judge panel basically decide if the app. is viable enough to be an app on the iPhone/iTouch/iPad.
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