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trong lần khảo sát doanh gần đây của 2.173 lập trình viên ứng dụng từ khắp nơi trên thế giới do appcelerator kết hợp với công ty nghiên cứu thị trường idc thực hiện cho thấy rằng các lập trình viên (developer) quan tâm đến nền tảng ios của apple nhiều hơn so với bất kỳ hệ điều hành di động nào khác.

89% người được hỏi nói rằng họ rất quan tâm đến phát triển cho iphone, và 88% quan tâm đến ipad. hệ điều hành android của google - trong 2 năm trước luôn cạnh tranh với ios về sức hút với các lập trình viên - đã bị giảm do sự phân mảnh của hệ điều hành này ngày càng cao. sự quan tâm đến nền tảng này đã giảm gần 5 điểm đến 78,6%, trong khi máy tính bảng android giảm 2,2 điểm từ các cuộc khảo sát trước đó với 65,9%. trong khi đó hệ điều hành windows phone đã bắt đầu cải thiện được sự khó khăn thiếu thốn phần mềm ngày đầu phát triển và ngày càng nhận được nhiều sự chú ý từ các lập trình viên và đứng hạng 3 trong số các hệ điều hành nhận được nhiều sự quan tâm phát triển ứng dụng.

báo cáo cho thấy rằng số lượng lập trình viên quan tâm đến hệ điều hành blackberry đã giảm từ 20,7% trong quý iv năm 2011 đến 15,5% trong quý đầu tiên của năm 2012. liệu con số thống kê cho quý i năm 2012 có sự thay đổi hay không? bởi trong thời gian này, nền tảng hệ điều hành os 2.0 trên blackberry playbook nhận được khá nhiều sự quan tâm của các lập trình viên trên thế giới. và trong thời gian sắp tới, khi cả thế giới dõi theo bb 10. tất cả sẽ được thay đổi.

dưới đây là nội dung thông cáo báo chí cuộc khảo sát của appcelerator và idc:




appcelerator / idc mobile report reveals google strongly positioned to battle facebook in social mobile

survey shows google’s assets as key differentiator in platform war with facebook; android interest erodes as html5 becomes a must-have for mobile apps

mountain view, ca and framingham, ma (prweb) march 20, 2012

appcelerator®, the leading mobile platform company, and industry leading analyst firm international data corporation (idc), today announced results from a new joint survey of 2,173 appcelerator developers around the world. findings reveal developers’ accelerating interest in social mobile capabilities, and – notwithstanding facebook’s 900 million users – developers view google and its broad range of assets (i.e., google+, search, gmail, android, android market, etc.) as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. the report also shows that android – once neck-and-neck with ios – is seeing waning interest due to continued fragmentation of the platform, and that html5 will play a bigger role in the mobile app development space this year.

appcelerator and idc also continued to observe a maturation of mobile strategies, as companies move from exploration towards acceleration and innovation in their mobile initiatives. the full report is available free for download at http://bit.ly/q1-2012-report.

the google & facebook battle moves to mobile
developers clearly see the worlds of mobile and social coming together as a huge opportunity, but they are struggling to understand how to leverage social assets in their mobile apps, including facebook’s social graph. at the same time, they recognize immediate value in having easy integration capabilities represented in google’s combined network effects with google search, youtube, gmail, google maps, etc. in fact, 39% of developers say that the network effects of google’s broad range of assets are more important to their social strategies in 2012 than facebook’s social graph.

“this translates into a big competitive opportunity for google—and potential significant risk for facebook—especially because developers perceive google as innovating faster than facebook,” said scott ellison, vp mobile & connected consumer platforms at idc. “add to that, google itself is clearly gearing up to leverage its network effects, one example being the alteration of its privacy policies to allow sharing of user data across its services.”

for all of the excitement and opportunities that social networking creates within the mobile ecosystem, this survey revealed developers don’t feel they have the knowledge or tools to fully leverage social in their app strategies. there are opportunities for established players like facebook, linkedin, and renren, as well as for challengers like google and even apple, to engage, educate and provide tools to help contribute to developers’ success, and drive engagement with their platforms.

the rise of html5 & windows 7, ios dominance and slow android erosion
the mobile app space to date has been dominated by native apps. however in 2012, html5 will move to center stage with both pure mobile browser apps and “hybrid apps,” which integrate both native code and substantial amounts of html5. this approach will help developers innovate across a crowded mobile landscape that has seen ios, android, and windows 7 claim the top 3 spots, while rim and others have experienced significant declines. while android has seen enormous growth in shipments and remains a solid #2, fragmentation continues to take its toll.

below are the top findings from this quarter’s report:

html5 becomes important to many mobile developer strategies. a resounding 79% of mobile developers report that they will integrate html5 in their apps in 2012. this is much higher than many industry observers had anticipated as late as q4 2011.
developers are struggling to understand and leverage facebook’s social graph. leveraging the full social graph itself ranked low – tied for 8th out of 11 social priorities for developers, while developers’ top uses of social remain notifications, status updates and authentication.
google’s network effects of its vast assets are a key strategic differentiator against facebook. google’s footprint across its assets (search, advertising, youtube, gmail, android, maps, etc.) and its resultant network effect is indexing higher than expected, given the size of facebook’s massive lead in social.
mobile app development continues to accelerate in 2012. more than half (53.5%) of respondents report that they are now focused on accelerating their mobile strategies compared to 27.4% in 2010, and 16.9% of respondents report that they will be focused on innovating their mobile apps in 2012 compared to 9.2% in 2010.
windows phone 7 interest remains high. wp7 is the clear “number three” os in terms of priorities, after apple’s ios and google’s android. the huge jump in interest in q4 2011 is holding steady notwithstanding somewhat disappointing wp7 device sales to date.
this quarter saw another sharp drop in developer interest in blackberry os. developer interest declined from 20.7% in q4 2011 to 15.5% in q1 2012, set against negative news around rim’s challenges.
ios continues to reign at number one in developer interest levels. eighty-nine percent (89%) of respondents say they are very interested in developing for the iphone, followed by the ipad at 88%.
android phones and tablets are showing slow erosion of interest levels. this quarter, interest in android phones dropped 4.7% points to 78.6%, and android tablets dropped 2.2% points to 65.9% from the previous survey. although close to or within the margins of error, these drops are consistent with the trend of small but steady erosion in android interest over the last four quarters, even as enormous growth in android unit shipments continues.
location and notifications are the top two cloud services developers plan to use to help scale. location and notifications are the top two services that developers plan to integrate into their applications to help scale up their mobile initiatives in 2012.

from exploration to acceleration and innovation
developers continue to move toward a maturation of their mobile strategies: to acceleration and innovation and away from initial app market exploration. a majority of respondents believe they are clearly in the acceleration phase now, with the expectation that they will be building multiple applications on a number of different operating systems.

throughout the survey, messages of a gradually maturing market permeate. growth in the number of developers building mobile applications, growth in the number of operation systems and applications supported, growth in the size of companies that are building mobile applications as well as increasing numbers of hybrid teams (both internal application development teams combined with external application development teams) are all evidence of this maturity. this quarter’s survey underscores that 2012 will mark key shifts in platform strategies, how social will be leveraged, and how fast these changes will emerge in the marketplace.
(nguồn: bgr)​