Google’s Android Market is the most used app store
amongst commercial developers with 47 percent of commercial developers having
some experience with the store compared to 43 percent who have used Apple’s App
Store, according to Evans Data’s new Application Distribution survey of over
400 commercial developers.
In addition, Android Market edged out Apple’s App Store
as the store more developers thought would be dominant in two years. However,
developers selling apps through BlackBerry App World made significantly more
money than developers using either Google’s or Apple’s stores.
“The industry has a perception that developers are
going to target either Android or Apple, and those two will define the
market,” said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data Corp.
“However, there’s room for more than two. BlackBerry
developers are not as plentiful but 13 percent make over $100,000 from the App
World apps, which is considerably more than Android or Apple developers, and
will help that platform continue to be compelling to developers, especially in
the enterprise,” Garvin added.
Recently
Ovum announced that Google’s Android will dominate total mobile phone apps
downloads in Asia Pacific as compared with Apple’s iPhone. Android will take a
significant lead in AP, with 1.8 billion downloads compared to Apple’s 1.5
billion. Last year the two top players reached downloads of 244 million
and 424 million in AP respectively.
Android’s dominance in this area will soar over the next few
years, and by 2016 there will be almost double the total number of Android
phone application downloads compared to iPhone in AP, with 6.07 billion and 3.4
billion respectively.
In another news, Intel and Google announced
that they will work to enable and optimize future versions of Android for
Intel’s family of low power Atom processors.
This means that future versions of the Android platform
will support Intel technology in addition to other architectures.
Chip major Intel will take advantage of the open-source
accessibility of the Android platform to provide its customers with technology
products that inspire continued innovation and also help enable powerful
personal computing experiences that fully leverage Intel technology across a
range of devices.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
