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 […]

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 […]

If you are interested in how applications are being used to promote brands then you might be interested in Johnny’s spreadsheet. It lists current iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm applications that explicitly promote a brand.
Notable by their absence in this study are Symbian applications. In other news there’s a rumour that Samsung will be dropping […]

I have previously written how easy it is for new entrants to the device market to create the first device but increasingly difficult to maintain compatibility and multiple versions of an OS over time. It seems that both Google and Apple are starting to feel these pains and are passing them on to developers.
A few […]

A recurring theme in many feasibility studies I do is what devices to support. This depends on factors such as what geographic region(s) you wish to distribute, the technical requirements of your application and the currently popular devices.
The latter, the current device market, can be difficult to quantify. Here are some free sources I tend […]

Handango have just released their Yardstick for the first half of 2008.
The Handango press release says…
"Palm OS has not released any new devices in 2008 and therefore, Palm OS devices have fallen out of the top 10 list of smartphones adding content."
and… […]

There are some interesting figures in the latest Gartner Q208 Smartphone sales statistics. It seems smartphone growth (as measured by its proportion of the market) is stalled at 11 per cent. This is due to…
"the current economic environment"and
"compelling touch technology mainly available on enhanced phones (based on proprietary operating systems)"

At first sight, it’s disappointing that […]