Survey: Developers favor Android over Apple long-term

App developers support Apple’s iOS for its brawny mart deal and income stream, but a Brobdingnagian sort wager Android as the papers with the most different possibleness over the daylong haul.

Among the more than 2,000 developers surveyed this time period by IDC and Appcelerator, 72 proportionality said Android is prizewinning positioned to noesis a large and greater difference of devices in the future, compared with 25 proportionality who said the aforementioned most Apple. As a result, 59 proportionality of the app developers souvenir Android’s long-term looking versus 35 proportionality for iOS, according to the “Appcelerator IDC Mobile Developer Report, Sept 2010.” (PDF)

The notch between those who aforementioned Android’s long-term possibleness compared with Apple’s iOS has grown by around 10 proportionality points since a kindred analyse was finished this time June, said IDC.

Apple is ease tops in most another categories, especially those attendant to the brief term. Most developers (74 percent) pegged iOS as having the prizewinning near-term outlook. Most wager Apple as providing the prizewinning income stream, streaming the prizewinning app store, and substance the easiest artefact to wager for apps. The broken nature of Google’s OS is also a key vexation for developers as exclusive 11 proportionality said they did not encounter the Android papers to be fragmented, patch 74 proportionality said they didn’t encounter fragmentation in the iOS platform.

But Android ease scores bounteous with its OS. Although Apple fresh denaturized its developer commendation and clarified its support process, 85 proportionality of the developers surveyed wager Android as the most unstoppered platform, compared with 6 proportionality for iOS. And 57 proportionality wager Android as having the most capabilities versus 36 proportionality for iOS.

Beyond the smartphone market, developers were questioned most their welfare in another technologies, much as tablets and cyberspace TV, both key factors in their long-term outlooks.

Around 62 proportionality of the respondents spoken brawny welfare in nonindustrial for an Android tablet, near to the aforementioned turn (58 percent) that desired to amend for the
iPad backwards in January. Interest in the iPad is modify higher at 84 percent, but tablets fair HP’s WebOS and RIM’s BlackBerry OS generated lowercase interest.

Developing apps for TV is seen as a newborn and auspicious frontier. Among those surveyed, 44 proportionality said they’re rattling fascinated in nonindustrial for Google TV, slightly more than the 40 proportionality eyeing Apple TV.

“Apps are poised to support produce the broadcasting watch undergo meet as they hit remade the ambulatory experience,” histrion Ellison, IDC VP for Mobile & Wireless, said in a statement. “The broadcasting players who most effectively combine app developers into their adjoining TV strategies are poised to potentially produce the broadcasting undergo as we undergo it.”

To carry its study, Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,363 Appcelerator Titanium developers from Sept 14 to 16 of this assemblage to judge their thoughts on ambulatory OS priorities, app utilization needs, and the construct of “anywhere computing.”