Windows Phone and BlackBerry struggle to draw developer attention

We’re taking this with a grain of salt, because it applies only to users of the cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development environment, however it appears that Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. At this point it would go without saying that a platform lives and dies by its developers and, in step with Appcelerator, they’re growing less and not more drawn to creating apps for Microsoft’s smartphone OS. Only 29-percent of devs responded to the corporate’s quarterly survey that they were “very interested” in putting their wares on WP7, a fall of seven points from last quarter and much lower than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, which saw a fall of eleven-points in developer interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folk from Redmond. Again, this survey relies only at the responses of two,760 developers using a selected product, so we’d refrain from calling the outcomes incontrovertible. Still, it reinforces something that even an informal observer could discern: BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 have a tough row to hoe . Two more charts after the break.

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