Mobile ad network InMobi announced the results of the survey more than a thousand developers around the world, according to which the Windows Phone became the least popular operating system for building applications, but at the same time the most profitable compared to competing mobile platforms.

According to InMobi, Microsoft's share of the product among the total number of established software is 21% against 57% for iOS and 86% for Android. However, this does not prevent programmers earn on creating programs for Windows Phone is much more than the Apple and Google platforms.

In particular, the average earnings of the application developer for Microsoft's operating system is $ 11 400 per month. In comparison, for the creation of programs for iOS developers earn an average of 8100 dollars for Android - 4 $ 900 per month.

Analysts believe that the higher price tags for the work due to the very low popularity of Windows Phone and weaker competition among developers. However, this situation may change in the near future because of the concept of universal applications for Windows, as well as due to easier porting software from other operating systems.