iOS vs Android: What side are developers taking?

With the market share of Android constantly increasing and the hardware of those devices becoming more competitive with the iPhone, developers are caught in the middle of a platform war. Do they write apps for the iPhone, where the store contains hundreds of thousands of apps and millions of users? Or do they go with Android which offers fewer restrictions yet more fragmentation? With plenty of users on both the iPhone and Android, the decision is becoming harder and harder. However, some data out of AppStoreHQ may show that developers are, in fact, choosing both sides and putting a foot in each marketplace.

Of their 55,000 person large developer database (43,185 on iOS and 10,199 on Android), 1,412 have already created applications for both iOS and Android. While this doesn’t seem like much, it does represent a growing trend for developers. This is already 15% of the Android developer base. However, as more Android phones are released and the software becomes more and more mature, this number will only increase. It certainly is a pretty exciting (yet, a little frustrating) time to be a developer.

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