At the Apple Developers Conference last month it was mentioned that, at that time, 25,000 had applied to the iPhone Developer Program (to sign and ship apps) but only 4,000 people had been admitted. I am still waiting to be admitted and until then can only develop under emulation and not on a real […]

There’s an entertaining piece at the Inquirer about analyst firm J. Gold Associates predicting Symbian and Android will merge…
"Gold believes the ‘true’ open version of Symbian won’t be available for around 18-24 months, allowing time for the two code bases to be consolidated into a superior open-source product."
Unbelievable - at least technically as well as […]

In Symbian, Just for Fun, David Wood talks about some research ideas at Symbian and how they might make Symbian development easier…
"I see lots of API improvement projects inside the Symbian labs - such as the experimental forthcoming ZString class alternative to text descriptors, and the […]

I have been developing some apps that need to act differently when they are roaming. The problem was how to test this. I needed a ‘foreign’ SIM card which didn’t seem to be much of a problem.
However, looking deeper, I realised that most of the ‘international’ travel SIMs actually have a UK number - […]

Over the last few months I have been playing with the iPhone SDK. This has required me to buy a Mac when I have previously had no interest or desire to buy one. Typical iPhone users won’t need a Mac because they can get iTunes on the PC. However, I do wonder how many people […]

Morten Hjerde has an interesting post on mobile Multi-platform Development. I have worked on projects that are common source and common spec so here are a few observations…
The main problem I have seen with common source is that it’s very easy for anyone to ‘break’ the code so that it no longer compiles. Despite rules, […]

Ben Lorica of O’Reilly Radar has what I think is a contentious post where he has analysed newsgroups for references to mobile platform names from which he has tried to infer developer interest.
 
I don’t think his results will be very accurate. Firstly, developers don’t just use newsgroups any more. Most use web sites, wikis and […]