Interesting article on who will win the race of the mobile runtime
UPDATE Andreas from VisionMobile has provided some feedback in the comments.
VisionMobile has a good article on the race to be the winning mobile runtime for applications e.g. java J2ME, flashlite, webKit, silverlight, lua, python and QT. I do question some of the numbers used in the addressable market e.g. 500M for flashlite versus 800M for javaME. To this day I have never seen flashlite on a mobile but I can’t remember the last moderately capable mobile without java - I am talking most about the Australian and European markets here - it may be more prevalent in the US or Asia. Adobe screwed up big time by charging a license for flashlite, they’ve since abandoned this fee but I think it may be too little too late.
WebKit is becoming a formidable platform by itself. Its HTML5 client side storage will lead to a whole new generation of offline capable web apps (google gears without the spyware). In future standardised javascript access to device capabilities (camera, address book, GPS) means that the only reason not to use web standards to develop mobile apps is if you really need 3D - in which case OpenGL is still the best bet - until VRML comes back:-)
QR Code statistics from Powerhouse Museum
Summary less than 1 in 5 conversion rate but several mistakes were made in implementation.
Sydney Design QR code wrap up - so did anyone use it?
Seb has posted an update
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/10/23/some-qr-code-clarifications/
Urbanspoon iPhone app now works in Sydney, Melbourne
Urbanspoon provides restaurant reviews with a twist, or shake. Latest version has local content for Sydney and Melbourne, the ability to submit photos, location aware, unique interface - it rocks.
Keith’s Mobile Goodness score 9/10
Get it from the app store
Android Market to allow carriers to veto apps
According to the GSMA Mobile briefing today, carriers can veto apps in the Android Market.
“T-Mobile said it would retain the power to veto any applications submitted to the Android developer store - known currently as ‘Android Market’ - in a similar manner to Apple’s policy on its rival App Store.”
Wow, that’s big if its true. Carriers are fiercely defensive, more so than Apple. If carriers can veto VOIP apps and music stores other than their own then the Android market is no better than the Apple App Store and could be a lot worse.
Please say it isn’t so.
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- keithahern: @jendudley the recommendations ping made for me couldn't be more wrong. Its like genius devs refused to work with the ping devs September 4, 2010keithahern: @jendudley the recommendations ping made for me couldn't be more wrong. Its like genius devs refused to work with the ping devs
- keithahern: @jmacmullin like most cool features I suspect the first api versio will only support video, its probably just transmitting a h264 stream. September 4, 2010keithahern: @jmacmullin like most cool features I suspect the first api versio will only support video, its probably just transmitting a h264 stream.
- keithahern: @majicDave same here, with equal fortunes spent across them. Would sell my left one to consolidate them. September 9, 2010