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Still explosive growth from Android which looks like eventually settling in to a decent balance and fair choice for consumers.
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'All your checkin are belong to us' Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile...
Like an ever growing bad meme, Facebook bought tagtile last week, which got buried under Instagram-gate...
Very interesting, but can see facebook ditching the meatspace tile cube in stores quickly.
How to build a university mobile app: Don't get bogged down in strategy, consider short term solutions & wins
via guardian.co.uk
Great article from a few months ago in the Guardian with an iMyopic image but some some good links and a quote I love;
Don't get bogged down in the large strategy development surrounding digital - consider short term solutions and wins too
Too true, sometimes there are too many stakeholders, bureaucracy and time delays in all businesses and before you know it, your killer idea can be put through a mangle and turn out well...mangled.
Cheers to the very talented @jsnip for the heads up!
Facebook acquires Instagram for $1bn. Hipsters cry, drop organic latte's and vacate the service..
Sarcastic yes, but a sizeable chunk of users it seems are not too happy about 'farcebook' spending (in best Dr. Evil I can) 1 Billion dollars to buy out the oh so cool polaroid stylee app.
The same whiners who in droves complained bitterly about Android stealing their cool and who were desperate to keep it elite (if you call a worldwide mobile app elite, and many do).
Still hipsters aside, bloody well done for Kevin Systrom and his small team at Instagram who now no longer need to worry where the next cheque is coming from.
So what happens to the app? Cynically we could have pokes, farmville and privacy options becoming hidden and cryptic, but Zuckerberg says no changes for now.
Why? To preserve Instagrams cool status, but is too late? Could it be like Yahoo was to the then oh so cool flickr, which is barley luke warm at best these days?
Time will tell but expect deeper integration with facebook and it's main mobile app quicker than you can sell your stock on farmville or poke your pal. 1 billion dollars spent needs return on investment, and you can bet they want a return with that price tag...
In a Long Distance Relationship? This App Is For You & A Great Idea.
via mashable.com
Some excellent social features captured here in this app called Pair that incorporates very similar elements to the pretty good app at Path.com.
Android 'Robot' Now World's Most Popular Mobile Browser. Cue Many Heads Burying In Sand...
via mashable.com
If you are not yet aware that your future is categorically tinted green, courtesy of Android, then you need to take the red pill dude. You cannot hide behind your iPhone any longer, either get balanced and have both devices, or be a chump and ignore the ever increasing market stats.
The reality is market wants choice and that is only a good thing for all. Monopolistic & forced control damages market creativity and stifles innovation.
In February 2012, Android Robot had 22.67% market share, followed by Opera with 21.7% and iPhone‘s Safari with 21.06% share.
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'Bringing balance to the (Mobile) force'. Cheaper handsets skew smartphone sales to Android.
via smh.com.au
Well, without saying I told you so, Android continues to grow, and develop at a rapid pace.
As said before I use multiple devices on multiple platforms, so no iHating (well only really towards iTunes) but balance and choice are incredibly vital to growth.
All to often in all walks of life, when absolute power is given to one, it corrupts and skews development for others.
Android commanded 48 per cent of the market compared to Apple's 43 per cent, according to NPD.
This news vis the Sydney Morning Herald is ushering in a new age of development, choice and innovation and is a major win for us all.
Told you so : P
Why Mobile Apps Must Die. Yes Really...
I use multiple mobile devices on Apple & Android, and believe really strongly in a fair and balanced approach for customer experience. Why? Because we have evolved (partially) from the design for one browser mentality, and why would we waste time going back to that awful closed thinking?
Mobile is at a huge evolutionary step, and in all aspects of life we have to deal with other fanboys such as the iMyopia possee. Depsite the huge growth of Android and the benefits of HTML 5. Both of which I do admit are more attractive because they are open to me, but in honesty, neither platforms are perfect.
Only web apps can bring the balance that is needed and ease the development issues for cross platforms, and dammit as a customer and being involved in mobile development, choice is bloody important!
Would you open a shoe shop and offer only one shoe, in one size?
I'm trying to bring the choice wherever I can, and from a work perspective was very proud that my team & I were able to offer this to our customers this year with RMIT University's first HTML5 mobile web app.
So where do we all go from here? Enter Scott Jenson, an ex Apple, and Google employee and mobile developer and strategist. A great talk and worth watching for his valuable and knowledgable insights in to the clutter of apps surrounding us, and I thnk only backs up what I and others have been saying which is...'choice'. Bring it!
The Future of Mobile is Multi-Platform; Australia catching up to the Android invasion.
via 3rdsense.com
Android handsets now account for 30% of Australian smart phone sales to iPhone’s 40%. (IDC survey) So the divide is becoming less and less, and competition is a very good thing for consumers and customers. The screen shot above shows the dual options business are now taking as having iPhone only options, is beginning to offer a kind of 'older generation/not quite getting the mobile space' attitude.
Still, as I posted the other day, many businesses will choose to be i-Myopic for some time, but glad to see 'choice' finally becoming statistically a major factor.
Choice being a point I've stood firm on personally from my own preference, ( I see iTunes as a giant venus fly trap for consumers) but for some time also from a commercial perspective I wanted to ensure RMIT's brand was not able not fall in to the Apple only trap. (Or any other sole mobile vendor for that matter)
I wrote back in Aug 2009;
RMIT is keen to offer an experience that’s open to all, and not locked in to just one platform, device or provider.
Choice never goes out of fashion, and it still holds true today. So nice to see this article on the future of mobile being multi-platform which warms my mobile heart.
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