BlackBerry Developers Make Most Money even as Google Android Market is Top Store for Developers

Blackberry Torch 9860 to be release in Jamaica end of October

Yes my Caribbean developers you read that headline right. I know over the last couple of years especially there’s almost been a hasty retreat to the Android platform and also iPhone. Android is owned by Google has a fast growing ecosystem and iPhone well they have like a gazillion apps out there to choose. Blackberry on the other hand has about 200,000 enterprise focused apps yet with far less numbers for the consumer market on Blackberry App World.

So when I got this particular piece of news I was like, the Caribbean Developers community has to know about this. Check this, this company called Evans Data Corp did a survey of over 400 commercial developers August this year and here’s what they found.

-BlackBerry developers are not as plentiful but 13% make over $100,000 from the App World apps, which is considerably more than Android or Apple developers, and will help that platform continue to be compelling to developers, especially in the enterprise.”

-Google’s Android Market is the most used app store amongst commercial developers with 47% of commercial developers having some experience with the store compared to 43% who have used Apple’s App Store.In addition, Android Market edged out Apple’s App Store as the store more developers thought would be dominant in two years.

– However, developers selling apps through BlackBerry App World made significantly more money than developers using either Google’s or Apple’s stores.
The Survey Also Said
—Visibility for their apps is the biggest complaint that developers have about app stores in general with 37% citing this as the biggest problem.
—Paid apps with no ads is the monetization model more developers use followed by subscriptions.
—Games are the most likely type of apps to wind up in app stores, with 27% placing that type of app in a store, followed by business apps at 21% and productivity apps at 20%.

So does this make you want to dust off those ideas for Blackberry Mobile Apps ?