Posts tagged "blackberry"
Posted by ThibautR on 31 January 2011
| Tags: android, blackberry, motorola, google android, nokia, Eclipse
You will be excused for not knowing what the Eclipse mobile Pluginfest is and that it happened in the first place... But you will not be excused next time for having missed this historical moment of mobile development tool's history : 2007 the first mobile pluginfest..
Throw yourself back in 2007! I know it's kind of hard so I'll paint a quick portrait of the days, Symbian is the most innovative and widespread mobile OS on the planet, WindRiver and IBM are 2 different companies, J2ME is still an important part of Mobile development (even though the Mobile Tools for Java project is struggling a bit), Doug Gaff was still at WindRiver, Doug Schaefer still at QNX, Christian Kurzke still at Motorola, Lars Kurth and I still at Symbian. The only sign of stability in this world is Ian Skerrett who's still heading marketing at Eclipse Foundation and should be thanked for his efforts to get the pluginfest sparkle back!
Back in 2007 we (as in the team of people named above) realized...
Posted by CarolineWIP on 01 January 2011
| Tags: oneapi, android, blackberry, app discovery, lte, tablets, wp7, IPTV, Appmobi, 2011 Predictions, network APIs, appstore placement tool, mobile development platform
As I peer into my crystal ball I see a year of more growth coupled with higher expectations for mobile along with a few upsets along the way.
The Growth
If you didn’t rest over the holidays, don’t expect to relax anytime soon no matter where you fit in the industry. We will continue to see more devices, more demand for apps, and more demand for developers.
It was March when we declared 2010 The Year of the Mobile Developer. Developers were in hot demand and were finally being embraced publically and vocally as a key piece of the mobile ecosystem.
With that, we will continue to see huge growth in the number of mobile developers entering the scene. I do think we will see a combination of really newbie/webby developers, given the rise in toolssuch as AppMobi. As mobile has now become ‘mainstream’ we will also see more traditional software folks entering mobile. Expect more development tools and enablers (analytics, advertising etc) on the scene too. Choice...
Posted by Carlo on 03 December 2010
| Tags: android, app stores, blackberry, ovi, apple, itunes, nokia
Note: We are making some changes to the WIP App Store Catalog, and the monthly App Store Report, based on feedback from our community members to make it even more useful and accurate. Be sure to stay tuned for the January report to see the changes, and leave any of your thoughts or feedback in the comments below.
In the early days of the app store phenomenon, most attention was focused on the degree to which the stores solve the distribution problem for mobile developers. Gone (supposedly) were the days when simply getting your application out to end users was a major challenge, as app stores made it easy for nearly anybody to make their app available to the masses. This led to another significant challenge, one that’s still a big problem for many developers...
Posted by Carlo on 06 May 2010
| Tags: blackberry, rim, Widality
Terry Hughes, president and CMO of Widality, developers of the BlackBerry business app Momentem, sent us this report from RIM's recent WES 2010 event in Florida. If you'd like to report on a mobile event you're attending and have your report and company featured on the WIP blog, send me an email at carlo at wipconnector dot com! Thanks Terry (celebrating the 100,000th registered user of
Momentem live at WES), and take it away!
As the developer of a B2B app / service exclusively available for BlackBerry users, I wanted to share my thoughts on WES and on RIM’s strategy too.
Although BlackBerry is way more of a consumer-focused company than ever before (as witnessed by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas doing a keynote!), much of the emphasis was on good old fashioned things like B2B solutions, the needs of the enterprise for mobility, and making money -- yes, making money isn’t a dirty word after all!
RIM appeared assertive and confident, partly because they had made it into the...
