People often ask me what mobile platforms they should support. My Mobile Development Primer lists the main considerations…

Geography - Some platforms are more popular in some countries than others
Capability - Some platforms can’t do some things
Demographics – e.g. Some platforms are used more by enterprise than consumers
Your Capability - What can you program and have […]

I have written a few times about using consumer hardware for vertical solutions. Today, I came across the idea of using the iPad for kiosk-style applications.
Re-using consumer hardware makes a lot of sense. However, one problem is provisioning lots of devices with an application, without it having to go through the app store. There’s currently […]

If you haven’t done so already, I’d take a look at Vision Mobile’s Mobile Developer Economics 2010 sponsored by Telefonica.
One thing I should say is that the term ‘developers’ is a bit misleading in all of this. Mobile developers are driven (employed by) by handset OEMs, carriers, companies, brands, marketing agencies etc. so the economic […]

Appcelerator has a great survey of ‘platform interest’ of 2,733 Appcelerator application developers taken during June 2010. The survey covers… "the perceptions for each of the six major OS platforms: Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Palm/HP (webOS), Microsoft (Phone 7), Nokia (Symbian/Meego) and RIM (BlackBerry)."

While reading the survey, remember historically, that Appcelerator’s customers were primarily iPhone developers […]

It’s interesting that both Java Verified (with Simple App Testing) and Nokia (with their latest announcements) are trying to re-gain ‘Old World’ developer market share.
Meanwhile, in the ‘New World’, Tomi Ahonen, at Communities Dominate Brands, has a very long article on the Full Analysis of iPhone Economics - Then It Gets Worse. In […]

As I mentioned last April, Apple started prohibiting sending of data to third parties. More recently, Apple has relaxed the restrictions but in such a way as to alienate AdMob.
I tend to chat regularly to other developers, both electronically and at conferences. I am increasingly getting the impression that people are starting to […]

A few months ago I wrote about using PhoneGap and creating WebView based applications. I also mentioned that there was a new whole O’Reilly book online (for review) on building iPhone Apps with HTML that included a great chapter on including jQTouch within PhoneGap.
The author, Jonathan Stark, now has a (very) similar book on ‘Building […]