Developers - Windows 8th Gear Is ready For Debut

It’s time to get set go for application developers. Microsoft has announced that developers from 120 markets will be able to publish their Windows 8 apps and start selling them online on Windows App Store from October 26, when the new OS will be commercially launched with big changes to user interface and navigation.

According to the latest Developer Economics report, Apple’s iOS is the most expensive platform to develop apps on, where an average app development costs about $27,000, making it 21 per cent more expensive than Android. The average app will take approximately three months to develop. A Windows Phone app, on the other hand, costs about $17,500 and an average Android app costs $22,617. “Naturally, app development costs depend on the country and app category. For example, iOS is faster to develop communication and social networking apps than Android,” the report notes.

There are lot of question arises that whether Windows 8 is going to compete with Android and iOS or not? This is the first time that developers will have an OS, which is tightly integrated with a number of devices and which is outside of the Apple eco-system. It is only in an Apple environment that a user gets a seamless experience between gadgets such as Mac, iPad and iPhone. Developers also see Windows 8 as an alternative to Google’s Android OS, one of the most popular OSes.

Now it’s time to see the impact of Windows 8 on application development part.