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All I Really Need To Know About Mobile Applications I Learned from Apple

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"Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some." - Robert Fulghum The market for mobile applications has changed significantly in the last four years, when I first started working with these applications. Four years does not sound like a long time but in this industry it means I have lived through several generations of devices and have seen some applications take off and many others fail. This year, analysts expect mobile applications to really take off; it is very exciting to see the industry reach this point, so I thought I'd share my experience and what I've learned in the process. Back then, Comverse was working on developing client applications that used new device capabilities to enhance network based services. These services included Call Completion, Mobile Instant Messaging, Address Book Backup, Mobile Email and Visual Voice Mail; each of them had different technical and commercial issu...

Apple Fails to Announce a 3G iPhone

From Cellular News today: "At the Macworld conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the company had sold 4 million units of its iPhone handset since it was launched exactly 200 days ago. He noted that was 20,000 phones sold per day, on average." Jobs claims that the market share for the iPhone in the USA has reached 19.5%, placing them second behind RIM within the smartphone market. Jobs announced several upgrades related to SMS functionality, an update on the SDK but no news regarding MMS. Jobs also failed to announce any new operator agreements and any update on the much expected 3G phone. Many analysts and industry experts expected Apple to introduce the 3G phone at this event.