A Market to not ignore
Mobile has been an attractive technology because of its small size and great contribution in evolving the communication paradigms. Its small size has been a hurdle to understand its huge potential.
We are all aware of Mobile Phone’s market size and its growth but we must not be ignorant about the other business territories defined by this small device.
Just have a look at one of the business market that is growing exponentially. It is Mobile Applications/Contents
This market was officially adopted by Apple, almost 3 years ago with launch of iPhone app store, and its one of the today’s fastest growing markets. According to the stats provided by Gartner Group, its estimated to reach US$29.5bn till 2013.
When we see the trend and momentum of Mobile apps market, we can’t just ignore it.
Steve jobs has provided it as a trend for the other companies and now Mobile application market is just ready to show the strength of a small device and human brain behind it.
iPhone is not going to stand for long as the only key player in app development, other key players have also set the grounds to compete it like,
- Google with Android
- Nokia’s Symbian OS and Java platform
- RIM with its Black Berry
- Palm Web OS
- Windows Mobile
- Linux etc…
There are many different Mobile platforms and each of them has their standards as we have talked earlier. This trend of app development in emergence with cloud computing is going to provide new trends to online application and solution development.
There is a heavy need to provide a common standard so that developers can cut their cost and effort to reach maximum audience with development of Mobile based solutions.
So far, there is not standard provided by the industry to cater problems caused by so many different standards. As there are,
- Different screen sizes
- Different Key pad standards
- Various User Interaction standards
- Processing and memory limitations
- Different API supports and changes in their implementation
and its a long list…
Our purpose here is to list down different options available and choose the best fit available for the developers to get best out of huge potential in Mobile application development. So stay tuned and you will find a very interesting stuff ahead.
