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Despite the fact that Google’s open-source Android is on far more handsets and carriers than Apple’s iOS, the App Store is clearly the big winner when it comes to developers actually making money.
9to5Mac is reporting that Apple’s iOS currently has 43,185 developers on its platform, compared to less than a quarter of that on Google’s Android at 10,199, according to statistics from AppStore HQ. Among the more than 55,000 total developers between the platforms, only 1,412 of them are actually developing for both iOS and Android.
“They believe a trend is emerging in which developers are plotting release of apps for both competing mobile platforms in future,” 9to5Mac reports, “but that for smaller shops that forces real challenges in terms of the expense of gathering together the resources they need.”
Among those challenges is that fact that Google is actually making it “pretty hard” for Android developers to actually get discovered and then to make money.
In a related report from Distimo, another problem appears to stem from the fact that while the Android Marketplace is available in 46 countries, “only 13 of those are actually able to download paid apps” -- and developers from only nine countries can even distribute them there in the first place.
Distimo has published a chart showing the average app prices for the various mobile marketplaces and one thing is clear yet again: Apple rules the mobile app roost.
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