It’s been coming for a while now, but Android has finally overtaken Blackberry and iPhone as the number 1 smart-phone seller in the US according to Neilson.
The Android Marketplace is approaching 100,000 apps, about 1/3 of the Apple App Store’s 265,000.
What’s the big deal you may ask? Well if you are in the process of creating a mobile application and you are only developing for iPhone, then you are probably missing out on a lot of potential users. According to AdMob, as of May 2010 some 26% of ads served were to Android devices (against 40% to Apple). That figure will have increased for Android over the last 6 months (but AdMod has stopped reporting on it publicly since its acquisition by Google… interesting…)
So think about using tools that let you develop your app once and deploy it to multiple devices.
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