Apps Developers Shows Interest in Developing on the Windows Phone 7 Platform

Nokia has consistently been making moves towards grabbing a place in the smartphones market. With the technology backing up the Nokia Windows Phone 7, Nokia may soon be on their way to acquiring developers who previously have been stucked creating apps for Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The successful aquisition of these developers means a brighter future for Nokia users who have been starving of app extras!

Developers appear poised to add a third mobile operating system platform to their efforts, according to a recent survey by Appcelerator and IDC, thanks to Nokia’s bold partnership with Microsoft earlier this year to use Windows Phone 7 on its smartphone line-up and the introduction of its sleek Lumia 800 Windows smartphone eight months later.

Yes, We’ll Do Windows, Say developers of the 2,160 Appcelerator developers surveyed, 38 percent said they were “very interested” in developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform, an increase of eight points and the highest level of interest for the Redmond giant ever, according to the report. The new Nokia Lumia 800 is currently rating high and attracting more attention.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s mobile rival Research in Motion (RIM) saw developer interest in its BlackBerry OS fall seven points to 21 percent. When the survey drilled deeper into developers’ interest in Windows Phone 7 compared with a year ago, the report found:

 “A plurality (48%) are saying it is the Microsoft/Nokia partnership. Nokia also received high marks for its new Lumia Windows Phone 7 smartphone announcement last month. Twenty-eight percent of developers said they are ‘very interested’ in developing for the device. This is more than double the interest in Nokia’s own Symbian and MeeGo OSes since Appcelerator began reporting mobile platform interest in January 2010.”
 
Following the above report, one can finally say that Windows Phone 7 have jumped over the BlackBerry OS to land a decisive No. 3 spot among developers, behind Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Now this is just a step, how about more steps which Nokia is bent on taking?

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