I’ve written a quick analysis on the Google App Market situation… Looking forward to your feedback/opinions! You can download this article in PDF format. Download The Google App Market – An Analysis (PDF). The Google App Market – An Analysis September 6, 2009…
The Problem: Too many handsets, environments, and differences across platforms The Solution: A single environment/platform for mobile apps There you go, problem solved, no more fragmentation! Google at MobileBeat 2009 Now that the “noise” level has dropped, it is my turn to comment…
On December 2008 I wrote on my blog Browser Swallows OS, where I pondered on the idea of a Web OS. The machine boots up to a totally web-based experience. The application-bar at the bottom of the screen consists of widgets and icons…
When browsing on your mobile, do you call it browsing “the Internet”, “the Web” or browsing “the Mobile Web”? After an interesting discussion at ForumOxford on one vs. many webs, I’m curious (keeping in mind that the majority of the readers of this…
I’ve been keeping track of a very interesting thread at Forum Oxford (FOROX) on the topic of Android phone dissapointing developers (w.r.t. iPhone), with Jason Delport, Alex Kerr, William Volk (who started the thread) and others adding their different perspectives on the matter.…
Happy 2009 New Year to all my readers. My first post of the year is about mobile applications: local/native vs. web, and app-stores. App-stores have been shifting the balance on application development and distribution (back) towards local/native applications. I don’t mean to undermine…
The Programmable Web reports that as of Nov 2008 it has 1,000 Web APIs on its directory. You can see the distribution below (which looks pretty balanced all around) with Mapping APIs at the top: And what is the preferred way to expose…