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 […]

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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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 […]

The Wall Street Journal has a great article today on "Here Come Tablets. Here Come Problems". They provide a rundown of the five largest mistakes companies are making…

Failing to have a plan before rolling out the devices
Not understanding what tablets are—and are not—good for
Expecting to easily obtain all the apps you need
Thinking tablets are cheaper […]

There’s a thought provoking infographic created by Inneractive based on downloads of AppsGeyser’s 100,000 Android apps across 200 countries. It shows that, over time, it’s becoming less and less likely that you will achive 50K downloads over 6 months…
 
However, the infographic also shows that a network of apps significantly increases chances of 100K downloads in […]

IDC has some new research on smart device shipments that show 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped in 2011 with Shipments Expected to Double by 2016.
"Windows on x86 platform, consisting of PCs running the Windows operating system on any x86-compatible CPU, slipping from a leading 35.9% share in 2011 down to 25.1% in 2016. The […]