The unsinkable. publisher Gameloft. recently revealed that it is planning to " significantly cut. " its development on Google's Android. platform. Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort added that "many others" in the industry have scaled back Android development as well. The reason, according to Rochefort, is the organization -- or rather lack lack of organization -- of its application store, the Android Market. Rochefort stated that the Android Market "is not as neatly done" as Apple's App Store. Rochefort noted that Google hasn't really gotten many Android users to buy products, saying, "On Android nobody is making significant revenue." To put things in perspective, Rochefort said that Gameloft has sold 400 times as many games on the iPhone as on the Android platform. Of course, it's worth noting that Apple's iPhone has a significantly. larger market share than Android. According to a recent Gartner report. released in August, the iPhone accounted for nearly 14 percent of
Gameloft pulling back on Android development
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