An operating system for mobile terminals is only good if there are developers who believe in it and develop applications for its application store. This year, iOS was by far the preferred platform of application developers and in the Android vs. iOS war, Apple's platform wins by far. making a comparison between the projects for applications started on the two platforms, in Q3 2011 over three quarters of the projects were started for the iOS platform and not for the Android OS platform.
Over the year, developer support for Android has declined from more than one-third of all new projects, at the beginning of the year, down to roughly one-quarter by the end. While the market nearly doubled for both platforms, we believe key events changed the proportion of support between these two platforms. Of particular note, Apple expanded distribution for iOS devices beyond its long-standing exclusive with AT&T to include Verizon in February and Sprint in October.
The information comes from Flurry, a company that analyzes data sent by over 55.000 companies that use its software. It is well-known that Apple's App Store generates much more money than Google's Android Market, and probably for this reason iOS won the trust of a part of Android application developers in Q2 2011. In the end, Google cannot currently compete with Apple for attracting developers to its platform, and it will probably never succeed in doing so, but at least it is trying.
