Why are enterprise apps and the developer community running as parallel lines?

Written by Corporate | Aug 28, 2014 5:51:22 PM

2014 can be called the Year of the Enterprise. With the explosion of the mobility movement and a positive reception of BYOD, it can be safely said that Enterprise apps today are as much, if not more, in demand as consumer apps. However there is a huge disparity in the demand for enterprise mobile apps and the developers who make these apps. A recent survey by Vision Mobile saw that only 16% of developers globally are developing Enterprise Mobile Apps despite the Enterprise market being more lucrative. According to this study 2 out of 3 developers, i.e. almost 67%, are concentrated in building consumer apps despite the fact that enterprise apps developers are likely to earn almost 3 times more.

Some of the facts that this report highlights are:

98% of Fortune 500 are using iOS and iOS developers looking at developing enterprise apps stand a chance to earn substantially more than Android developers
Between Android, iOS and Windows platform the global developer community is more inclined towards Android as a primary platform. This survey also shows how platform evangelism has a significant impact on preferred programing language used by the developer community.
Most mobile app developers are focused on gaming and basic consumer apps since these are easy to sell across multiple platforms yet almost 24% of these developers make nothing at all.

With a higher adoption of mobile solutions, it is only a matter of time that enterprise apps will overtake consumer apps. Research also suggests that by 2017 enterprises will have their own app stores making this a great time for developers to explore the enterprise app market.