Very good report. Makes me have a better view of all.

Amazing that Operator's role is lumped into "Other" category for the go to market segment.

What a seachange in the mkt place in just 3 years.

@Vsistla

1. Given that Android and Java ME use Java, what other factors contribute to the lower learning curve being lower for Android?

2. Where is BREW (or why was it not included)?

Brew is not major market for apps in indonesia, but we build another business module here "check out <a href="http://www.falcon.co.id” target=”_blank”>www.falcon.co.id ".

I think the android has been growing quite rapidly. Both now and for years to come.

We can conlude that Android require less time than others.

But if you want to check out http://developer.smartface.biz theres is cross platform called Smartface Designer. Time to become master is less than one month. In addition to these it supports a lot of platforms like ( Java, BB, Symbian,..)

@Gabriel – thanks for the kind words

@vamsi – in the actual report there's more detail about operators as a go-to-market channel. If you see the average time to market reported for operator channels compared to app stores (2x slower for operator portal placement and 4x slower for on-device preloading via operators) it hints at the reasons behind the problem.

@Ankur: Android's fast learning curve is about more than the programmatic syntax of Java; it's also about app communication constructs like Intents, skinnable/extensible UI, better emulator, etc. Android is really a clean slate approach to mobile development.

BTW, BREW was not included in our list of platforms – we plan to include it in the next (2011) research

@Ajuy, @Murat, thanks for the additional comments.

apple?i dont like it

How can 24% of Application Go-to-market be other than App Store on iPhone, when it's impossible to install an app otherwise. (except if the developer sign it specifically for *your* device or if you jailbreak it…).

Something's not right with this statistic… How was it measured?

@Matos:

Thanks for the clarification, the difference in marketing approach makes sense.

Good report, very helpful to understanding of the value chain.

I am looking for information on the size of mobile app developer communities in different countries (in particular US, UK, India and Russia) and the number of apps created by each.

I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

thanks, Iftikhar

Your survey that emphasizes java-focused developers leads to some bizarre implications about "mobile development."

1.4 billion Flash-capable mobiles? Unpossible, if you're talking about full Flash: Android is now on about 19% of smartphones and Froyo is 39% of those, so the other 1.39 billion can run Flash Lite at best. That's a major market in 2010? Who is writing for that?

3 billion java-capable mobiles? If the implication is that the mobile app market is 50X bigger than the iPhone's, you are posturing yourself as utterly inept at interpreting information.

Your readership might actually enjoy seeing the marginal income from a new app on any of these platforms, which they could compare to the development cost. That'd factor in the huge ratio of apps actually purchased or run with ads on the modern platforms of Android and Apple, versus all the others shown. If you can't come up with a "typical small developer app" revenue by platform, why not take the average? How many billions of dollars are developers earning with their Flash apps?

Why have you not focused on the Qt development framework instead of Symbian? My understanding is that Nokia strongly encourages Qt over the heavy C++ Symbian programming for the very reasons highlighted in this "outdated" report. Just curious why you avoided such an obvious and significant element to the developer's decision making process.

Now, i was going to write something about the outdatedness of the Symbian information in this infographic, but i see i am already late, so i'll just go "Yeah, what Stoli89 said"

Very insightful data visualization. It's amazing how there is not relation between installation base and available apps. and I assume this will hold true for next few years as well.

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Informative no doubt. Is there any updated version of it? With Latest data?

So how much is earning the developer in all of this, i know the distributor earn a lot like apple, but what about the developer?

@Bibhas – Developer Economics 2011 <a href="http:// (www.DeveloperEconomics.com)” target=”_blank”> <a href="http://(www.DeveloperEconomics.com)” target=”_blank”>(www.DeveloperEconomics.com) has newer data – was published in June 2011. We also have an infographic for DevEcon11 – http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2011/07/infograp…

@reggy – depends on a number of factors, such as platform, app store chosen etc.

is there any updated version available? with latest data?