IPhone tops chart of developer’s platform

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a latest survey, 55% of developers build their applications for the Apple iPhone OS. The list is followed by RIM BlackBerry OS, Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5. In the same survey conducted last year, Windows Mobile was by far the most popular OS.

2.4 separate platforms currently developed by the developers are expected to increase to 3.4 over the next 12 months. More than half of developers consider multi-touch to be important or essential to application development, making a whole wealth of devices inadequate by this standard.

Apple’s iPhone OS also topped the chart of the list of developer’s future planning with more than half of those not currently developing for the platform planning to in the next 12 months. Google’s Android and BlackBerry OS were the other in the chart which the programmers were planning to start supporting.