iPhone is app development king
The iPhone operating system has come out on top of a new survey of application developers conducted by Ovum Research. Ovum asked 217 mobile application developers from around the world whether they planned to use various OS in the near future for application development. Apple’s iPhone OS came out on top, as 81 percent of respondents said they had already developed applications or where planning to develop applications for the platform. Following behind the iPhone OS were Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS, which attracted 74 percent of developers, and Windows Phone OS, which attracted 66 percent of developers.
