Today, a combination of three press releases from research companies provides a great insight into what’s happening in the overall world phone market, the smartphone market and the tablet market. Here’s a summary with a few comments on what I think are the significant changes that, in time, will affect developers.
IDC have research on the […]

Many companies doing development are looking at the ‘here and now’. I previously observed how successful products sometimes project the technical and market roadmap to the next few years and try to fill a gap. In mobile, things change very quickly, timescales are compressed and it’s rarely sensible to try to project more than a […]

Appcelerator have an interesting IDC Q3 Mobile Developer Report based on a survey of 5500 developers. Here are the key findings with my personal thoughts in italic.

Mobile developers believe that a mobile-first startup could disrupt Facebook. Facebook obviously made a mess of mobile in their first iteration. I see this less as an opportunity to displace Facebook […]

The indomitable Tomi Ahonen shares some stats from his Phone Book 2012. Of particular interest is the installed base of smartphones, by operating system.
Note that this is the installed base, not recent sales, which means the numbers are more useful for people interested in trying to determine what platforms they should support. Further, they […]

Reuters have an interesting article "Nokia, Microsoft head for Last Chance Saloon". It describes the poor uptake of Windows Phone Devices (3.7 percent of the global smartphone market) and how the next incarnation, Windows Phone 8 "is very high stakes" for Microsoft and Nokia.

I was never a fan of Nokia’s strategy announced on Feb 11 2011. […]

iSuppli has a new press release that says that smartphones will be displacing featurephones faster than was originally expected. 2013, rather than 2015, will be the first time that smartphones will make up more than half all Worldwide phone shipments.
iSuppli also say "Microsoft’s Windows platform is predicted to become the third viable smartphone platform in […]

Canalys released their Q2/2012 figures while I was away last week. I take more interest in Canalys reporting because a) They are World figures (I dislike the way some other researchers quote US figures as if they are World numbers) and b) The numbers are based on shipments and not on something such as use […]

Developer Garden Component Marketplace is a new online marketplace from Deutsche Telekom (powered by Verious) where developers can buy and sell software components for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and HTML5. It includes some Deutsche Telekom components as well as those provided by Verious.
Components are a great way to get your project up and running quickly. However, here […]