AppStore SchmappStore
Before diving into this article, let me give you an idea of where I am coming from. I bought my first PDA in 1996 – the original Palm Pilot, and immediately started looking for apps and believed I...
View ArticleMisguided Microsoft
As news is pouring in from GSMA, I really reacted on this quote from Microsoft of the success of Apple as quoted by Moconews in an interview: Apple’s success with the iPhone: Why has Apple been able to...
View ArticleBallmer gets a trashing on mobile strategy
Tomi Ahonen, mobile guru extraordinaire, gives it to Steven Ballmer in an open letter to Microsoft (a bit long, but worth reading). Ballmer is clearly off the mark and mostly deserves what he is...
View ArticleMobile game developer headaches continue
Having been involved with the mobile games industry for nearly a decade, I cannot say anything but the words made famous (?) by Bill Clinton: “I feel your pain”. It was hard enough starting out,...
View ArticleApp or wap? Both thanks.
AdAge recorded an interesting viewpoint from Major League Baseball about whether a brand (or media property) should have an app or a wap site. The answer is you need to have both. From MLBs...
View ArticleWinMo adds new app store – and…?
With the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft also announced the launch of their appstore. They join a long list of not-so-fast followers who are announcing app stores, and this one is surely to be...
View ArticleHey, Google: Please don’t destroy Android!
In the spirit of Tomi Ahonen’s open letter to Steve Ballmer and Microsoft on their lack of a proper mobile strategy (albeit a lot more friendly than Tomi’s), I feel the need to write this letter to you...
View ArticlePoll 1: The price of device ownership
Figuring out device cost is not easy, because mobile operators frequently subsidize the devices towards their subscribers in order to lock in long term contracts. Total cost of ownership certainly...
View ArticlePoll 2: Defining the benefits
This poll is a continuation of the research “A Value Based Framework for Smartphone OS Analysis”, which I wrote about earlier. This time around, you are asked to rank the various smartphone OS on their...
View ArticleLooking for Symbian? Take a few more steps…
Nokia has taken heavy criticism for their Microsoft alliance, electing to ignore Android, Meego and Symbian. But wait, are they really dropping Symbian? Nokia’s GM in Singapore has his own take on...
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