iPad, iPhone devs outpacing Android

iPad development is accelerating at a fast enough pace that it's already eclipsing Android and BlackBerry, a Flurry study found Thursday. Of all the new app projects started in the past three months, 22 percent were for the Apple tablet. The explosion of interest shrunk the proportion of interest in Android from 18 percent in 2009 to just 10 percent in early 2010, while the BlackBerry's slice of development dropped from four percent to just one.

iPhone development's portion also shrunk from 78 percent to 67 percent.

The share doesn't necessarily show diminishing interest, as Android development actually increased by 300 new titles in the same space of time. A sudden influx of iPad development, however, would point to the market growing primarily in Apple's favor while Google and RIM are seeing only modest growth in their own platforms. Many more iPad apps are expected to reach the App Store by the device's Saturday launch than did the iPhone in July 2008; the original third-party catalog had just 500 apps two years ago where the iPad should have 2,300 or more.

By Electronista Staff