I have been looking back and reminiscing on mobile projects I have worked on in the past. The more I think about them, the more I realise that the clients that have been most successful have been those who were already experts in the particular field that the app is trying to address. Those clients […]

According to my web logs, my post yesterday on Nokia MeeGo and Belle was very popular. Some people agreed with me on Twitter. However, a tweet by Sebastian Brannstrom made me look at it from another angle. He said "I think an important factor is the staggering cost of Nokia R&D. They can’t develop at […]

As Nokia’s late MeeGo and Symbian offerings get released, we start to get a closer look at what Stephen Elop saw, back in February, when he decided to drop them for Windows Phone. 
Surprisingly, the MeeGo based N9 was widely acclaimed and now, Symbian Belle is getting great reviews. According to ZDNet it brings Symbian closer […]

It’s often the case that the people responsible for specifying mobile applications rarely appreciate how apparently small requirements can mushroom into timewasting and costly endeavours. To some extent, some developers are to blame as they blindly implement things without asking ‘why’, whether it’s worth it and whether there is a business requirement.
Here are some aspects […]

There’s an interesting article at Mobile Marketer that complements my observation last week that you don’t have to have your app consume a large proportion of a user’s time spent on the phone for it to be useful.
Magnus Jern takes this to the extreme when he asks "is there anything wrong with 1 million people using […]

Vodafone have announced the European rollout of their operator billing for the Android Market. It starts in the UK and Germany where consumers, who have purchased their devices through Vodafone online and retail channels, can pay for Android applications either via their monthly bill or via prepay (Pay as you go). Vodafone is the first in Europe […]

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 […]