Venture Beat had an interesting article asking where all Android apps are? I think its not such a mystery and its not a huge indictment of Android. There are five major smartphone operating systems with a future: iPhone, RIM, Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian (notice I didn’t mention Palm or LiMo).
If you’re an mobile app developer you can afford to target all of them (when it was two or three you perhaps might have tried). Android easily falls off the priority list for every mobile app developer I’ve talked to. With a platform like Rhomobile (are there others?) you can write it and target primarily iPhone and Blackberries for volume, but still get Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
December 13th, 2008, dturchin Says:
From the enterprise perspective, Android is a good OS competing with great ones. When the iPhone launched, there was immediate interest in business apps. Completely different with Android. Like Adam says and Rana from VentureBeat alludes to, it doesn’t make sense for most developers to write Android apps.
