Judging by the latest developer survey results from Appcelerator, Android’s future has become brighter than ever. Exactly 59 percent of the developers involved wagered that it had the best long-term outlook, which isn’t bad by itself and represents a significant rise since June.
A little background data: in June, 54 percent of participating developers bet on Android, and 40 percent bet on iOS, so as the graphic below shows, the gap is definitely widening.
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What’s more, 56 percent of developers said they consider Android to have the most capabilities as an operating system, and a whopping 85 percent of them indicated it’s the most open platform.
Of course, in fairness to Apple, we should note that most of Android’s would-be wins haven’t actually occurred yet. Appcelerator explained in a statement, "Apple iOS continues to dominate in all categories relating to market/revenue opportunity and current devices. iPhone continues to lead overall developer sentiment with 91% saying they are ‘very interested’ in developing for the device compared to 82% for Android phones."
So the war between the two companies and mobile operating systems is sure to continue for quite a while.
RIM might not be out of the rivalry, either, with new info from StatCounter and Royal Pingdom indicating that its user are spending more time on the Web every month.