“Mobile ecosystems analyst firm, VisionMobile, today released its fourth Developer Economics report,” Rob LeFebvre reports for Cult of Mac.
“The 2013 report, sponsored by AT&T, Mozilla, and Nokia, looked at developer opinions, charting out which platforms have the highest mindshare among developers as well as which platforms make their devs the most money,” LeFebvre reports. “iOS leads the platform mindshare among developers, with 48 percent of them reporting it as their lead platform. Android and BlackBerry are next [with 44% and 38%, respectively].”
LeFebvre reports, “76 percent of the developers point to the iPad as the best monetization and development platform… the installed user base among surveyed devs is the same, across iOS and Android, but the development cost and learning curve in using iOS is lower. The Development environment, documentation, app discovery, and revenue potential is reported by the developers that use both platforms as better on iOS.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Screwy results. At 48%, iOS seems far too low (just under half of all developers don’t build for iOS first? Seriously? On what planet was this survey conducted? These results are simply not in sync with results from similar research; see related articles below) and BlackBerry is obviously much too high at 38%.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Related articles:
Developers overwhelmingly choose iOS first as interest in Android wanes for third time in last four quarters – October 2, 2012
Apple iPhone continues lead with 51.2% U.S. market share as Android users increasingly switch to iPhone – January 22, 2013
My Journey to the Dark Side: If this is what Android offers, Apple investors have nothing to worry about – January 19, 2013
Of myths and market share – January 18, 2013
How Apple is destroying Android from the inside out – January 18, 2013
Apple dominates smartphone OS satisfaction survey – January 18, 2013
The Apple double standard – January 18, 2013
Apple surges ahead of Google in mobile ads – January 18, 2013Google Android’s smartphone OS unit share lead may be ending soon – January 2, 2013
Why Apple’s iOS will win the platform war over Google’s Android – January 11, 2013
The Android engagement paradox – November 26, 2012
People buy more Android phone units and do less with them vs. Apple’s revolutionary iPhone – November 14, 2012
Apple rakes in 71% of the world’s smartphone profits – September 8, 2012
Apple kicks Google’s Android in the teeth; $1.05 billion jury award may really be worth $450 billion – August 27, 2012
Study: iPhone users vastly outspent Android users on apps, respond much better to ads – August 20, 2012
Apple utterly dominates mobile device market with 6% market share – and 77% of the profits – August 6, 2012
Apple’s iOS over 4 times more valuable to developers than Android – June 7, 2012
Game over, Android: Apple owns 84% of mobile gaming revenue – May 7, 2012
Apple takes lion’s share of mobile profits; Samsung unit sales estimates cloud market share picture – May 1, 2012
Apple remains #1 global smartphone leader; Samsung overtakes beleaguered Nokia for cellphone lead – April 27, 2012
Wealthy smartphone users more likely to have iPhones – April 2, 2012
Apple iPhone users most open to mobile payments – August 22, 2011
iPhone users smarter, richer, less conservative than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
Apple iPhone users spend significantly more on their credit cards than non-iPhone users – November 5, 2010
Study: Apple iPhone users richer, younger, more productive than other so-called ‘smartphone’ users – June 12, 2009
I know a developer that works for one of the big game makers and they said that they make for IOS because they make money and they make almost no money on Android. Oh and who they hell would play a game on a Blackberry – isn’t their whole focus on business. I agree this survey is skewed.
Conducted by AT&T, the company that instructed their workers to advise people to buy windows phones over iPhones? and Nokia, an apple competitor, and besides all that, they could not manipulate the data to show apple was not the higher of all?
The conundrum going forward is this:
Google is getting better at SW faster than Apple is getting better at web services.
At some point those lines are going to cross.
By now it is obvious that the courts are not going to allow Apple relief from the effects of theftware in the mobile space for whatever reasons.
130% total? Someone’s double reporting.
With surveys, there are three important aspects.
How to select who to talk to
Exactly what questions you ask
Was anything else spoken about prior to asking the questions ?
Most surveys don’t give much information about either of those issues and as a result, one survey can produce wildly different results from another survey which appears to be superficially similar.