Gameloft says it:Its not worth developing for Android
filed in Ecosystem Android on Nov.21, 2009
The market for Android needs to do more. The big developers are just not enticed by it because its not lucrative. Only those web 2.0 that feels they need a prescence on all platforms are developing for it.
iPhone App store is the most lucrative.
Gameloft — and other developers according to Gameloft — are cutting back on development for Google’s Android platform due to the “weakness” of the Android Market. According to Reuters, Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said:
We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others. [The Android Market] is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue.”
