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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Motorola MOTODEV have an interesting Webinar for enterprises considering native vs web apps. The discussion is high level and is therefore probably aimed at managers rather than developers and provides a great introduction to the issues that affect the choice of a native, web or hybrid approach. The MOTODEV Enterprise blog goes on to describe […]

Dimensional Research has a recent free report on The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security (pdf) that highlights some of the issues related to enterprise device security. The report is based on a survey of 768 respondents responsible for securing company access in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.

The report shows the […]

Are you an Android or iOS developer? Are you are thinking of becoming one? What’s the demand for developers in your country? Trovit has an interesting Android vs iOS infographic (png) showing the share of jobs across countries based on jobs posted on their site. Here’s just a small part of it…
 
However, don’t base your […]