Amazon's Kindle Fire has emerged as the leading Android-based tablet in North America, based on a survey of application developers conducted by Appcelerator and IDC.
Forty-nine percent of respondents said they were "very interested" in developing for the Kindle Fire.
Developers also expressed significant interest in the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with 48 percent of respondents saying there were very interested in developing for the device.
The November survey of 2,160 Appcelerator Titanium developers also found that the Windows Phone 7 operating system by Microsoft "decisively moved ahead of RIM's BlackBerry OS to become the clear number three mobile OS behind iOS and Android." Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they were very interested in the platform, representing Microsoft's best showing in the survey.
For BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, the survey wasn't good news. Only 21 percent of respondents said they were very interested in BlackBerry OS phones while a modest 13 percent of respondents noted they were very interested in PlayBook QNX-based tablets.
"Put another way, there’s now more interest in Nokia’s new Lumia Windows Phone lineup than RIM’s smartphones," Appcelerator said.
