Survey Shows LBS Developers Least Interested in WebOS

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Looks like developers of location-aware apps aren't very interested in developing programs for Palm's new WebOS or Symbian. Skyhook Wireless, makers of XPS, the world's first true hybrid positioning system, conducted a survey of mobile application developers to quantify developer attitudes towards the developing location-aware apps on leading mobile platforms.

  M5 ?1 W! d0 a7 a  t100 developers from six different platforms including, iPhone, Android, Symbian, RIM, Windows Mobile and J2ME took part in the survey.

56% of all the developers surveyed plan to port their application to other platforms. Looks like most of the developers are interested in Android as 58% of non-Android developers plan to port to that platform.
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2 A! }, [, S3 {8 b40% of non-iPhone developers plan to port an app to that platform. Only 26% will port to RIM, and 20% will port to Windows Mobile.
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The survey results show that developers are least interested in Palm and Symbian, with only 8% and 9% of developers planning to port their applications to those platforms.

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有关调查显示，定位服务软件相关的开发人员对webOS和Symbian不太感冒。

2 [3 g4 I( t0 }4 eSkyhook Wireless，设计了世界上第一个真正的混合定位系统，
4 S$ P5 D2 {* O: H4 v该公司最近对目前主流的移动设备系统上的定位服务软件的开发平台关注程度作了一个调查。
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5 _- A8 a) |- H! ^, o100位来自六大主流移动设备平台的开发人员参加了调查：iPhone，Andriod，Symbian，RIM，WM，J2ME。
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( l5 u; \. \+ e7 h% f调查结果：
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56%的开发人员有意把自己的软件移植到其他平台上。

. \, c$ k/ T1 s7 cAndriod是最受关注的系统，因为58%的其他几种非Android平台的开发人员对Android感兴趣。
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9 y- d& U2 e- @- Y1 I其次是iPhone，有40%的非iPhone开发人员在关注iPhone。

然后是RIM和WM，分别有26%和20%的开发人员在关注。

( f7 m! E, t8 Y8 I最后是Palm webOS和Symbian，只有8%和9%的人员有把软件移植到这两种系统上来的计划。

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