There’s a thought provoking post on Gorkem Ercan’s blog asking does Java have a place in the future of mobile devices? Gorkem works for Nokia in the Nokia S60 Java platform team working mainly with Java and eclipse based technologies.
Gorkem sees one possible scenario as being…
"Android Java becomes so favored that OSS projects start for […]

I came across configuremyphone today via the MoMo London email group. It’s solves the problem of getting connection settings to phones. The www.configuremyphone.com site itself is for end users who pay for settings to be sent via premium SMS. I don’t see the point of this when most phone OEMs provide their own free setup […]

Andrew Ebling, author of iBlueSky emailed me regarding the charts I published last week. He suggested one metric that he thought would be interesting to consider would be the relative difficulty of addressing device fragmentation.

This chart is trying to say a lot of things and generalises a lot so it needs some explanation. On the […]

There’s an interesting (long) post at Safe From The Losing Fight. This is a great follow up if anyone has been reading my past observations on the iPhone application store.
Andy Finnell says that one outcome may be that…
"The App Store becomes a market for one off apps and abandonware, where apps don’t progress beyond version […]

From feedback, it seems my post yesterday on the relative development difficulties of the various mobile platforms was popular. People like charts, so here’s another showing the platforms on which people are currently seeking to develop. The statistics are based on leads for work I have received in the last two months. 
 
The largest category is […]

When I meet people at conferences, one question I particularly get asked regularly is how easy is it to develop on the various mobile platforms. I would say it depends on what aspects you are considering and whether you are a beginner or experienced with a given platform.
Here’s a very subjective graphical view of […]

I published my first freeware application on the Android Market last week. I was amazed with the ease of the publishing process. I signed the app, signed up to the Market and uploaded the application within minutes. I looked on the T-Mobile G1 and it was there immediately. It made Symbian and iPhone publishing look […]