MSFN Forum: Mobile Developers: We prefer Apple and Google, not Microsoft

In a recent survey conducted by mobile development companies, researchers found that mobile developers prefer to build applications for the Apple iPhone and the Google Android, but lack interest in Microsoft's Windows Phone.

As The Seattle Times reports, these mobile developers who participated in the survey were "very interested" in developing applications for the iPhone. 91% of developers want to build for the iPhone whereas 86% of developers were very interested in developing for the iPad. Google's Android operating system sparked an 85% interest while Google's Android Tablets sparked a 71% interest. Coming in last place is none other than Microsoft's own, Windows Phone, which 29% of developers said they would be interested in developing applications for the platform.

One of the companies who conducted the survey, Appcelerator, discovered an interesting trend that could be used to Microsoft's advantage.

"Now we're in the shipping wave of Android tablets. That's where things start getting experienced. Now we get the first set of reviews, they are coming up with fair to, say, mixed reviews. What we hear from our developer base on this is that Microsoft has a window of opportunity in exploiting the issue that Android tablets are seeing today. The good news is with Android there's an opening on the tablet and fragmentation. There's an opportunity to walk the middle line between not being closed like Apple and not being too chaotic like Google."

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