日前，美国宾夕法尼亚大学举办了PennApps Hackathon应用开发大赛，要求30多组参赛选手自由选择手机平台，在短时间内快速开发完成针对该平台的应用产品。

据游戏邦了解，尽管这些参赛者中约有25%的人持有iPhone手机，但却极少有人愿意面向这一平台创建应用。

pennapps-chart

有16%的参赛学生选择针对Android平台开发应用，仅2%的人选择了iPhone平台，还有不到3%的人称自己对Mobile Web平台更有好感。

他们选择Android平台的原因五花八门，比较统一的答案是大多数人认为自己对Java比较熟悉，也有人称Android更具有灵活性，更简便，是一个开源平台，所以做出了这个选择。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com）

Student Developers Prefer Android at University of Pennsylvania Hackathon

The PennApps Hackathon was held this weekend at the University of Pennsylvania. The hackathon ran from 6pm Friday evening until this afternoon, with 30 some-odd teams rapidly building their apps. The hackathon was geared towards mobile app development, and participants were given a choice as to which platform they could opt to work on.

Interestingly, even though iPhones were the most popular devices in terms of students’ ownership, with 25% saying that’s what they carry, it was not the most popular platform to develop on -not by a long shot.

16% said they preferred Android. Just 2% chose iPhone, less than the 3% who indicated “mobile Web” was their preference.

The students said they preferred Android for a variety of reasons, including their familiarity with Java. They also indicated they preferred Android as it was flexible, straightforward, and open source.（source:readwriteweb）