Comments on: The Next Big Thing in Mobile: Local Applications, and how the iPhone will, and how the OHA and Android can change perceptions

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By: Sachin Palewar

Sachin Palewar — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:59:19 +0000

According to a Telephia research, location-based services (LBS) such as navigation, represented 51 percent of the $118 million in revenue that downloadable mobile applications (such as LBS, weather applications, chat/community, and personal organization tools) generated during Q2 2007. Many consumers, says the report, may not realize the utility of a navigation application on their mobile phone until they use it, so my thought is that Location based applications are still doing great and will continue to do so in future as well. I hope I understand what you mean by Local applications correctly.

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Sachin Palewar

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By: ceo

ceo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:21:13 +0000

Yes Tom, I agree on the more fragmentation issue. I had the same thought, see Google Android, Yet Another Platform. ceo

By: Tomsoft

Tomsoft — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:21:19 +0000

I can not agree more, on the “return” of local application.
However, we will see another huge fragmentation issue, as we are facing now several platforms to support:
JavaMe for mainstream, Flashlite for some handsets, iPhone / ObjectiveC, Android/C++?, WindowsMobile,Symbian, “local web” GoogleGears like, ….

Landscape has never been as fragmented as today, and the winner are uncertain. I excpet to have two or three years of technical uncertaincy….

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By: Patrick Martin

Patrick Martin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:40:41 +0000

There are a couple of new resources about Android mobile. A community for Android developers has been set up called http://www.androiddeveloper.com which aims to be a hub for developers using the platform.

Another site called http://www.androidmobileforum.com has been set up for everyone to discuss anything about Android mobile.

Hopefully these will be useful as Android becomes more popular and is talked about more.