Developer survey sees iOS and Android maintaining lead

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On February 15, 2011

Analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein has surveyed several top developers about iOS and Android.

The survey indicates that developers find Android to be the easiest to develop for, followed by iOS. One of the key issues with Android is the plethora of screen sizes and different memory specifications.

Among Android developers, Sacconaghi sees the fragmentation of both the software and the hardware profile of the many Android devices as an issue. That’s not going to change anytime soon, given the various competing interests in the Android market that keep parties from getting on the same page, he believes. There are 15 different combinations of screen-size and resolution on Android devices, he notes, and five different combinations for memory specification.

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