One in four developers happy to support Symbian is a decent new piece from AAS which turns the stat on its head and points out the positives.
“29% of developers support Symbian, says Millennial Media, with 100% of them supporting iOS. While that sounds like a bad statistic for Symbian, it’s worth examining the data to conclude that this is healthy for a huge number of mobile operating systems. More below…
First up, Millennial Media are an ad serving platform (similar to AdMob and Quattro), so the numbers are derived from their own reports and advertising systems. There is going to be inherent bias in the system. Also consider that the Boston-based company is likely to be promoting itself as a potential acquisition target to Silicon Valley – the flag waving of Android and iOS support becomes a bit more clear…”
