Programmers at Ubermind are diversifying their app store loyalties. Once the company’s mobile-phone software developers trained all their attention on making applications for the Apple iPhone. No longer.

The 34-person team at Ubermind, maker of the popular iLightr app that makes a virtual flame on the iPhone screen, recently began building apps for a rival mobile-phone operating system. They’re now releasing two apps a month for devices based on Android, the software backed by Google, in addition to

the five monthly apps they release for the iPhone. “We have no plans to abandon” the iPhone, says Ubermind CEO Shehryar Khan, who says his company’s sales have doubled in the past year thanks to iPhone apps. “But we are not going to put all our eggs in one basket.”

Of the more than 125,000 programmers registered to create apps for the iPhone, a growing number are branching out to build apps […]

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