The theme today seems to be mobile stats and different ways to view them. First take a look at Gartner’s Q1/2012 stats released today. The interesting part for mobile developers is the breakdown by operating system…
 

Android has made a large gain in market share. Symbian is dying fast and Microsoft has less share than Bada […]

There’s an interesting article at Wired on Football Manager Handheld and its 9:1 piracy rate. Piracy isn’t new. All platforms I have worked on, right back to Windows CE in the 90’s, suffered from severe piracy. Somehow, games always seem the worst affected. There’s some correlation between the kind of people who like games and […]

Adweek has a useful infographic based on Forrester Research data that shows where tablets are being used, what they are being used for, who uses them and also provides some comparisons for use of smartphones.
 
 
 
The data on who uses tablets suggests that, much like the desktop, tablets apps (and devices) should be designed for multiple users.
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During yesterday’s earning’s call, Larry Page singled out low end Android tablets as important and an area Google is focussing on. Amazon’s success with the Kindle Fire is probably the main reason as it’s a forked non-Google experience device that Google has limited control over. With rumours that Google is involved with an own brand […]

Entreprenurs are always on the look out for the next big thing. If you can predict just before it happens and have a product or service in place when it happens then you can take advantage of being first to market. Where’s the next big thing in mobile?
According to Gartner, tablets could be the next […]

I tend to ignore most of the noise coming out of anti-virus companies as it’s often biased self-supporting PR. However, the Sophos news site has a great article on how Facebook logins aren’t being properly protected on iOS and Android. In summary, auth tokens are being saved to files that can be read into other apps […]

Sony has a revealing article educating consumers about the technical differences between Android Gingerbread and ICS. In summary, users might prefer to stay with Gingerbread because ICS needs more powerful hardware. Those that upgrade might experience performance related problems.
This takes me back to last year when Google announced their handset unity initiative. At the time […]