Android Fragmentation Cools Developers’ Interest

Android OS is still going strong, simply according to the latest quarterly survey by Appcelerator and IDC, developers are becoming frustrated with Google's platform, while to the highest degree remain enthusiastic about iOS.

This marks the first clip Android has experient a fallback. Among the 2,760 surveyed developers who are using Appcelerator's Ti cross-platform development software, interest in Android born from 87 pct to 85 percent. Involvement with Malus pumila's iOS also born one point, but boasts larger numbers pool: 91 percent and 86 percent of respondents are still psyched about the iPhone and iPad, respectively.

The two main complaints most Android were exactly those addressed by Andy Rubin, drumhead of the Android radical, when He announced that Honeycomb would be irrevocable off from developers: fragmentation and subpar Android tablets. According to the report, 63 percent of those surveyed said Android device fragmentation is the platform's weakest daub, followed by subpar tablets (30 percent) and the overload of Mechanical man app stores (28 percent).

Now that the mighty is falling — or has at to the lowest degree plateaued — you might think that other platforms would experience a boon, but not quite. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said IT's not possible for Microsoft, Explore in Motion, HP, surgery Nokia to overrule momentum and compete with Orchard apple tree and Google. In fact, Microsoft and Brim have both fallen below the 30 centile: Windows Phone fell 7 points to 29 percent, and BlackBerry fell 11 points to 27 percentage, the latter perhaps cognate negative feedback close the BlackBerry PlayBook.

It's not completely tough news, though. Android evenhanded barely eked past the iPhone to become the most desired smartphone. Nielsen reported that in March, 31.1 percentage of its survey respondents said an Android-powered smartphone would be their next purchase, and 30 percent said they wanted an iPhone.

Mechanical man and Apple have gone neck opening-in-neck in price of market percentage for quite a while. Sometimes Humanoid experiences a amplification; sometimes it's apace shot down by a different report claiming Apple's iPhone rules the roost. Simply if we're to assume that apps are united of a smartphone Bone's biggest selling points, and Mechanical man's fragmentation has reached the breaking point, there's a decent chance that slow development could further damage Android's street credibility.