iOS Is The Priority Platform Among Developers Says Study

Analyst firm Vision Mobile has today released its Developer Economics 2013 report, the fourth in the series, revealing which platforms have the highest priority among developers and which platforms make their developers the most money. As expected, iOS leads with 48% developers reporting it as their lead platform, followed by Android and BlackBerry.

Report

According to the study, 44% developers reported Android as their main development target, while 38% developers named BlackBerry as their priority mobile platform. Windows Phone and HTML are seen by those surveyed as platforms to extend app distribution, and not as a primary target for development. The report also claims that 38 percent of developers in the group of developers surveyed use advertising as their primary business model.

Some of the key findings from the report:

  • Developers that do not develop for Android or iOS generate, on average, half the revenue of those developers that do
  • iOS emerged as the highest priority platform, with 48% of iOS developers using it as the lead platform among all others. iOS, Android and BlackBerry constitute lead platforms, which are most often used as a main platform among their developers
  • Advertising is now the most popular revenue model for apps, used by 38% of developers in our global sample

The report notes that tablets are also starting to have a similar mindshare among surveyed developers as smartphones, with 76 percent of the developers pointing to the iPad as the best development platform.

(via Cult of Mac)

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