People underestimate the effort required to create a great web app. They tend to get blinded by the write-once promise but in practice it can quickly turn into a nightmare. Brian Leroux takes a deep look at in his presentation on how the mobile web is a mess. I have previously written a lot about […]

I have previously commented on the Implications of App Use on App Design and questioned whether ’snacking’ is as equally applicable to tablet apps. I am seeing a growing number of people thinking about making their Android apps more tablet friendly as opposed to just providing a tablet-esqe view on what was a smartphone app. […]

In June 2009, I wrote about Apache Mobile Filter that allows WURFL (now gone commercial) access from any programming language, not just Java and php.
Now that the service is more popular and WURFL has gone commercial, Apache Mobile Filter has been updated to include further device repositories DetectRight and 51Degrees.mobi. The author hopes to […]

Barely a day goes by without me receiving a press release on yet another mobile app generator or framework. The frameworks tend to be more interesting for me as they allow developers to do more. Today I came across a useful mobile framework comparison chart. Although it currently only maps platforms to frameworks, it’s already getting […]

Nielsen has some statistics on the total time spent on apps and web, the proportion spent on each and a breakdown of apps that account for the majority of the time.

An hour a day is spent interacting with apps and web
67% of this time is spent on apps
The top 10 Android apps account for 43 percent […]

The Vision Mobile Developer Economics report has an interesting chart showing fragmentation of the various platforms. That is, the number of versions of an app that have to be developed to cater for different versions of a given OS.
 

This concurs with my previous observation that problems of Android Fragmentation have been exaggerated. However, I suppose […]

Related to my post last week on companies not having mobile web sites, there are lots of stats at the Microsoft’s Mobile Commerce Revolution: Smartphones & Smarter Shoppers Infographic. Here’s an excerpt…

 
Top Rank, the online marketing blog has some useful tips to get you started.

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