ResearchAge demographics of an app developer
App developers are not as young as stereotypes suggest. Just over 20 percent of respondents to a GigaOM Research survey are in their teens or early 20s, while nearly 60 percent… Read more »
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App developers are not as young as stereotypes suggest. Just over 20 percent of respondents to a GigaOM Research survey are in their teens or early 20s, while nearly 60 percent… Read more »
A misperception, somewhat tied to age, is the level of education app developers have completed. Most are not high school or college students developing apps on the side. In fact, more… Read more »
The majority of app developers are full-time employees, with app development accounting for all or a portion of their jobs. Full-time employees accounted for nearly 60 percent of respondents for a… Read more »
Given that the mobile-app market as we think of it today is only five years old, the level of tenure is quite long. According to GigaOM Research’s survey results, nearly 23… Read more »
By far, the majority of app developers — 34 percent of those surveyed by GigaOM Research — said they make less than $15,000 per year from app development. Those earning six… Read more »
Developers tend to work either independently or in midsize firms. Twenty-seven percent of developers surveyed for GigaOM Research work at a firm that includes 2 to 3 people. The domination of… Read more »
According to the survey results, the majority of respondents focus on 1 or 2 projects at a time, though one group of developers that represents less than one-quarter of the community… Read more »
As would be expected, the regional focus for app localization maps to regional headquarters, according to a survey from GigaOM Research. So the regions with the higher concentrations of regional headquarters… Read more »
Ninety-five percent of survey respondents are currently developing an app for the mobile phone — the largest and most established market — or have developed one in the past year. While… Read more »
Survey results indicate that 70 percent of respondents are developing apps for tablet devices compared to 95 percent for mobile phones. Currently, just 11 percent are developing for the TV market,… Read more »