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As it’s time for predications and reflections I always go back to my previous predictions to see how I made out.  And contrary to the belief of Strand Consulting, they are not the only ones to publish their previous years, so you can see how I made out too! 

Here are the highlights and  links to those predictions:
2011 – Year of APIs, Growth of Discovery, Less BlackBerry, Less Android, More iPhone
2010– a Thibaut/Caroline combo here.  I declared:  More Android, More BlackBerry, Less iPhone, More Innovation/More funding
2009 Tough economic times, Access the new open, Less US centric, yet more fragmentation...
2008  The Rise of Tools, M&A, and ‘Open’
2007  More fragmentation, newbie developers, Usability; and Location, Location, Location.

It was pretty right on for last year, especially the bit about API growth and where I predicated More iPhone, iPhone being the easy choice for developers as  I saw “ developers abandoning BlackBerry and Android and heading back to...

One week to go before wipjam in London, so here's our penultimate take on the Mobileapps2.0 theme. After a deep focus on the technical issues this week's interview (with a slight delay) will be looking at the marketing issues for developers or how the "race for the deck, winner takes all " is changing to a seemingly random brownian movement of marketing activities...

Noam Yasour (@nyasour) from Inmobi tells us more about how Froggy jump from Invictus made it to a commercial success.

TR: Tell us about an application that caught your eye lately?

NY: Froggy Jump from Invictus Games. It's a free game and has been downloaded over 3M times and had numerous updates, adding more content and features to the game. The game is based on a type of a freemium model - combination of mobile advertising and in-app purchases and proved to be very successful for Invictus Games. We have a full view of the case study downloadable here.

TR : What do you think they do right?

NY :   Most...