Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system is winning over an important group of allies in its fledgling rivalry with Apple Inc.’s smartphone software: application developers.
Google公司的Android手机操作系统的重要联盟组正在与苹果公司的智能手机软件进行着羽翼未丰的竞争（注：来自Google翻译），应用程序的开发者。
More than half the 2,733 developers surveyed by Appcelerator, a mobile-software tools provider, see Android as having the most long-term potential among operating systems. About 40 percent of respondents said Apple’s iOS would have the best long-term outlook, according to the survey released today.
手机软件工具提供商Appcelerator调查了2733名开发者，超过一半的开发者认为Android在操作系统中最有长期潜力。根据这份调查，大约有40%的反馈者说，苹果的iOS最有前景。
The study yields another signal that Android is gaining steam on iOS, which will power the new iPhone 4, Bloomberg Businessweek.com reported. With some 60 Android-based devices and more than 60,000 apps available, the operating system is adding more than 100,000 users daily, according to Mountain View, California-based Google. Android will eclipse iOS as the world’s second-most-popular mobile operating software in 2012, researcher Gartner Inc. has said.