It’s no secret that tablets are currently the hottest items in mobile; they made a splashing debut that swept the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Well, app developers have had their say, concluding that 2011 is the year of the TABLET. A Q1 2011 Appcelerator/IDC developer survey, in which 2,235 developers were polled, found that developers are most interested in creating apps for iOS and Android devices, and interest in creating tablet apps is significantly higher than… Read more »

A recently released study on the new platforms mobile developers plan to support in 2011 puts on full display the increasing fragmentation of the smartphone market. Millennial Media, a Baltimore-based ad network, teamed with Digiday and an analyst from Stifel Nicolaus to survey app developers, publishers, and advertisers about their outlook on development practices for 2011. When asked which new platforms they planned to develop on in 2011: 29% of publishers said Android 20% of… Read more »