Developers begin to lose interest in Android

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Jason Ankeny, reporting for FierceDeveloper:

Any discussion what’s hot is inevitably followed by a conversation around what’s not, and that’s Android. Appcelerator reports that 78.6 percent of developers expressed interest in building apps for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) smartphones during the first quarter, down from 83.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and down from around 87 percent a year ago. Given that Android’s market share has continued to explode over the last 12 months, you can’t blame consumer disinterest for developer apathy in the platform; the culprit is–you guessed it–fragmentation.
Even though these statistics sound bad, there's still the major fact that Google's I/O for this year sold out in a mere 27 minutes. What's more, I hope developers do lose interest in Android, because there are far too many terrible apps out there anyway. If only there were more developers who put effort into their apps like Carbon and Papermill.

With the introduction of Android 4.0, Google proved that the operating system again has potential, but nobody out there really wants to help the ecosystem. Instead, they just want to make money for themselves; if this doesn't work, they don't care about the platform at all. Developers need to work together to make Android app development more profitable and stop wasting time on worthless free apps or ones that are overpriced for the limited functionality that they offer.

[Via The Loop]