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 […]

Yesterday evening I went to the O2 Litmus/Oracle Java Developer Event. While the event was advertised as "bringing together some of the best and brightest in web and mobile to share their experiences and discuss the rich and relevant tools available today", I was a bit disappointed there were no new announcements or presentations by […]

I have been following Apple’s very recent lockdown on how apps must be written. The resultant communication between Steve Jobs and Greg Slepak and the related post by John Gruber are worth reading.
I will leave the many other sources to speculate why Apple have done this and discuss the ramifications on companies such as Adobe […]

There were 14 demos at last night’s MoMo London. Here are some of my thoughts from the evening…

I was surprised with the breadth of platforms being supported rather than everything being just iPhone-centric. Each company had their own reasons for choosing their particular platform (or platforms).
I observed that companies seem to be mainly developing for […]

A very recent Admob publisher survey shows some interesting trends…

The report also shows that the majority of Admob’s surveyed publishers are developing for either Android and/or iPhone. BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java ME are currently much less popular. Also, more developers are now making money by using in-app advertising rather than selling their […]

At the beginning of February I took a quick look at the future of Java ME under Oracle.
Jaxenter has an informative article on Oracle’s "Write Once, Run Anywhere" strategy.Some interesting observations from the article…
"Sun has prevented the adoption of Java SE on a large scale within the mobile phone market with its Field of Use […]

In 2007, I observed that most of the few non-game Java ME applications that had become successful, performed most of their processing at the server. Last year I wrote about WebView applications and commented on how useful these are for some types of application.
WebView applications are just a web site embedded inside an application. It’s […]