{"id":4868,"date":"2014-10-03T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2014-09-06T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T19:22:45","slug":"mobile-app-development-despite-the-trend-to-mobile-business-developers-still-focus-on-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/mobile-app-development-despite-the-trend-to-mobile-business-developers-still-focus-on-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile App Development:  Despite the Trend to Mobile, Business Developers Still Focus on the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has more than a million apps\u00a0on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and they report that customers\u00a0<a title=\"$10 billion on mobile apps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2014\/01\/07App-Store-Sales-Top-10-Billion-in-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent $10 billion<\/a>\u00a0on apps in 2013. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to mention the app stores of competing mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that the world of development today is centered on mobile. \u00a0But just to the contrary, a recent survey of developers found that 93 percent of them say that the desktop is still their number one focus. \u00a0And 51 percent of developers have never even been involved in any sort of mobile app development. \u00a0That&#8217;s the result of a survey by the <a title=\"Developer Tool vendor Telerik survey on Mobile Development\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telerik.com\/platform\/posts\/14-09-05\/half-of-developers-still-doing-nothing-with-mobile-app-development\" target=\"_blank\">developer tool vendor Telerik<\/a>. \u00a0While business executives single out mobile apps as a top priority for their business, developers at those same businesses have been slow to make a move in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions from the Telerik report are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The widespread use of mobile technologies across businesses is taking longer than 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