WWDC 2011 was a good time to conduct some surveys among iOS/OS X application developers, so the Piper Jaffray analysis went to the location and asked several developers present at the event. Although the survey was done on only 45 of the probably more than 1.000 developers present there, Piper Jaffray presents its results as being representative of the entire industry. According to their survey, only 7% of iOS application developers also make applications for OS X, but 47% of them also make applications for Android.
In 2008, before the launch of the App Store, 50% of the companies that made applications for iOS made applications for OS X and none of them made for Android. In 3 years, things have changed a lot and the OS X platform is becoming more and more uninteresting for developers who prefer Android OS, BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone 7 to its detriment. Apple launched the Mac App Store in January of this year and since then several thousand applications for OS X have been collected, but the growth does not seem to have impressed anyone until now. iOS and iDevices represent the main source of income for Apple, and in the coming years this is where major innovations must be made, because the world is mainly interested in iPhones and iPads and less so in Macs.
