Venture Capital Backed Mobile App Startups Remain Predominantly Mobile OS Agnostic | The ChubbyBrain Blog: "Are venture capital-backed mobile app companies developing their apps on a single mobile OS or are they developing them to work on multiple operating systems? A look at 2009’s venture capital funding activity in the mobile startup space shows that despite the $100 million plus already invested by venture capitalists in iPhone predicated startups, venture backed mobile startups are generally developing apps which work on multiple mobile operating systems vs those which are platform specific. By multi-platform, we mean their offerings work on two or more of the prominent mobile operating systems, e.g., the big six mobile OSs - Android, iPhone, Palm, RIM, Symbian and Windows. Because we were focused on US venture backed mobile startups, the Linux mobile OS which has 5.1% market share but which is heavily China and Japan oriented didn’t figure into the OSs we examined.
As the graph below illustrates, 67% of 2009’s venture-backed mobile app startups are developing their applications to work on multiple operating systems while 33% are developing for only a single platform, e.g., platform specific."
Monday, September 7, 2009
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