The search engine giant’s operating system has the best long-term business prospects, according to a new survey.

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Extract from Inc. magazine.

Developers have seen the future of business, and they say it’s Google’s Android.

Apple’s operating system is the best opportunity for business now, but not in the long-term, according to a new suvey of some 2,400 developers from around the world, conducted by software development tools company Appcelerator and research firm IDC.

Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of developers say Google’s Android operating system “is best positioned to power a large number and variety of connected devices in the future,” while just 25 percent said Apple iOS – which runs the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad tablet — will dominate smartphones, touch-screen refrigerators and other connected devices of the future. The gap betweenGoogle and Apple has widened 10 points since the last survey, conducted in March…

See also, A Brief History of Android published by CIO Magazine / Network World

http://www.cio.com/article/620117/A_Brief_History_of_Android?page=8#slideshow