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Platforms 101: Not all mobile platforms are created equal
[The term ‘platform’ is used for describing things as diverse as social networks, web browsers, on-line retailers and open source...
SlashData Team
Jul 25, 20116 min read
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[Infographic] The Mobile Platform Race – How do mobile platforms stack up?
We’re proud to present our latest infographic, The Mobile Platform Race, showcasing some of the most important findings and insights from...
SlashData Team
Jul 19, 20111 min read
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[Report] Developer Economics 2011 – Winners and losers in the platform race
[Who is leading in the platform race – and who’s lagging behind? Marketing Manager Matos Kapetanakis examines the flow of developer...
SlashData Team
Jun 8, 20114 min read
The mobile services landscape: Can OEMs compete with platform vendors?
[Growing competition and price pressures push handset makers to seek new ways to differentiate. This increasingly means services....
SlashData Team
Apr 17, 20114 min read
100 Million Club: Winners and losers in the OS Arena
[2010 was a year of upsets in the mobile industry, as the league of top 5 handset manufacturers saw the inclusion of pure smartphone...
SlashData Team
Apr 3, 20116 min read
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[Survey] Developer Economics 2011: The evolution of app development
[Developer Economics 2011 is here! As we launch our new survey on all things developer-related, Marketing Manager Matos Kapetanakis looks...
SlashData Team
Jan 24, 20114 min read
BlackBerry: A Dual Personality Disorder?
[RIM is torn between two very different market segments: Enterprise mobile messaging and text-addicted consumers. Amidst troubling signs...
SlashData Team
Nov 15, 20105 min read
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[Infographic] The Mobile Developer Journey
The Mobile Developer Journey A few months ago, VisionMobile published Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond, a research report that tracked...
SlashData Team
Nov 3, 20101 min read
Smart < feature phones = the unbalanced equation (100 Million Club series)
[Smartphones get all the media attention, but it’s feature phones that are still driving the mobile industry. Marketing Manager Matos...
SlashData Team
Oct 18, 20105 min read
30 Tablets in Q4 2010: packed train arriving at empty station
[There are 30 tablets coming by Q4 2010, but who is going to buy them? Guest author Jonathan Goldberg, Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank...
SlashData Team
Oct 6, 20108 min read
Remapping the handset OEM landscape: squeezed in between a rock and a hard place
[In a race for profits, the mobile industry finds itself squeezed between vertically integrated players like Apple and horizontal players...
SlashData Team
Jul 26, 20107 min read
Developer Economics 2010: The Role of Networks in a Developer World
[In the final part of our series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Telefonica’s James Parton...
SlashData Team
Jul 20, 20106 min read
Mobile Developer Economics: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications
[In part 3 of the 4-part series on our latest research РMobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond Рguest author Tor Bj̦rn Minde takes...
SlashData Team
Jul 16, 20104 min read
Mobile Developer Economics: Taking Applications to Market
[In part 2 of the 4-part series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Andreas Constantinou looks at how...
SlashData Team
Jul 13, 201010 min read
Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare
[In part 1 of the 4-part series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Andreas Constantinou looks at the...
SlashData Team
Jul 5, 20105 min read
Breaking the 500 million barrier of mobile software
[Which are the most ubiquitous mobile software products out there? Marketing Manager Matos Kapetanakis opens up our 5th edition of the...
SlashData Team
May 10, 20104 min read
Palm: $1.2B Down the Shredder
[The acquisition by HP will not save Palm. Guest author Michael Valukenko explains why the sum of Palm and HP is close to zero] As an...
SlashData Team
Apr 30, 20103 min read
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[Survey] Calling all developers: Making sense of a fragmented world
[Calling all developers: VisionMobile launches the most ambitious developer research to date. We also take the opportunity to look back...
SlashData Team
Feb 1, 20105 min read
Behind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms
[Thought Android and iPhone are taking over the world? Think again. The device platforms map is more fragmented than ever, while the...
SlashData Team
Jan 24, 20108 min read
Will Legacy Smartphone Platforms Keep-up with iPhone and Android?
[BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 were designed years ago – the traditional strengths of these software platforms are...
SlashData Team
Aug 23, 20095 min read
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