Cyber Monday Sale over 400  deals“Skyhook Wireless, a Boston-based company that offers location-based information to businesses, recently polled 30 app developers and asked them about their experience with, and plans for, the Android platform,” Om Malik reports for GigaOM.

“The results should be worrisome to Google and its hardware partners, because there seems to be a general dissatisfaction with the OS and, more importantly, its commercial potential,” Malik reports.

“Over 10,000 apps are available for Android devices,” Malik reports. “Nearly 57 percent of the total polled said they were not satisfied with their profits on Android, while 39 percent said somewhat satisfied. Only 4 percent said they were satisfied with the profits they have made off their Android apps.”

Malik reports, “Another area of concern for developers: fragmentation that comes with multiple devices from various phone makers running on different carriers. Nearly 46 percent of developers surveyed were certain that different versions of Android would make development difficult.”

Malik reports, “68 percent of those surveyed are somewhat or not likely to put further work into their apps, compared with when they first released their app.”

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