Skyhook wireless have a new survey that answers a question I have had for a while… How accurate a location do most developers need? Is cell id good enough for most applications or is accurate position as given by GPS really required?It turns out 73% of developers require exact positioning. 19% need neighbourhood location while […]

I have learnt via the MoMo London group that Stanford University is putting their iPhone Application Programming course online. Lectures 1 and 2 are are already online giving an introduction to Objective-C and Foundation framework APIs. The full syllabus is also available.

It’s amazing how many companies refuse to buy project management tools for their employees. As a freelancer, you realise that paying several hundred pounds, euros, dollars for something you might only use once a month doesn’t make sense, especially when there are many free alternatives.
If you plan mobile projects and don’t wish to use or […]

Coincidentally, while writing the previous post, Comscore has released their Apple App Store Report.
The following table lists the ‘all time’, cumulative installed base…

Here are some findings…

Unknown brands can attract a higher penetration than apps for larger and more established brands
The number of app users is growing nearly ten percent each […]

I have a long-term developer friend in Thailand who currently has the number 2 iPhone application in the US, ParkingLot. The application is also currently in the top 7 in the UK and top 10 in 22 countries. I have had lots of questions for him, not least, how does he support of the order […]

Juniper’s recent press release predicts strong growth of smartphones due to application stores driving demand.
I actually find the application store success story intriguing and surprising. Since the 1990s, companies tried application stores of varying functionality and none were particularly successful. So why was the iPhone application store so successful?
I […]

Infonetics Research has released a new report on mobile/wifi Phones, subscriber market size, market share and forecasts.

Here are a few highlights…

There will be a 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide
Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the […]