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IDC and Appcelerator have published a survey of 5,778 mobile developers which highlights integrating with back-end data as the biggest challenge in app development. Appcelerator's product is a cross-platform mobile development tool, so note that the survey may not be representative of all mobile developers. Among this crowd …

  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    So in essence

    All the alternatives to Apple products are losing interest.

    However it is clear from a users perspective that iOS needs Android needs iOS.

    The rest seem to just be making up the numbers.

    IMHO, this is very predictable behaviour in any maturing marketplace.

    I wonder what Google will do to address this? Sheer numbers of devices won't always bring in the Ad revenues they need to keep going.

    1. ColonelClaw

      Re: So in essence

      I'm not sure Google needs to do a great deal. What they (slightly) lack in developers, they more than make up for in sheer volume of users they can experiment on.

      However, Microsoft...

  2. Kristian Walsh Silver badge

    Bear in mind that this is a survey of users of Appcelerator's toolkit. This immediately self-selects the respondents based on how well Appcelerator supports the various platforms: after all, you wouldn't choose a tool that's sub-optimal for Android if Android was your primary development target.

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