BlackBerry: A Dual Personality Disorder?
[RIM is torn between two very different market segments: Enterprise mobile messaging and text-addicted consumers. Amidst troubling signs...
Developer Ecosystem Spotlights: Sector Trends & Insights
Game, mobile, web, IoT and embedded developers do not all work the same way. Our developer ecosystem spotlights explore the languages, tools, workflows and emerging trends shaping different software sectors. Read sector-by-sector explainers and commentary on how developer needs and technology choices vary across games, mobile, web, embedded systems and other platforms. For community-size estimates, survey results and the data behind these trends, explore our developer ecosystems research.
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The MeeGo Progress Report: A+ or D-?
[Eight months after the announcement of the MeeGo project by Intel and Nokia, guest author Dave Neary analyses the progress made to date...
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
[The UI of Android mobile devices is at the epicenter of a conflict between Google and the OEM struggle for differentiation. Guest author...
The Tortoise and the Hare: The tale of Android evolution
[Android is moving too fast with software releases – too fast for the smartphone ecosystem to follow. At the same time, Android is moving...
Symbian is dead. Long live Symbian
[Is Symbian coming to the end of its shelf life? Research Director Andreas Constantinou dissects the motivations behind Nokia’s strategy...
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...
Windows Phone 7: Tipping the Scales of the Smartphone Market
[Windows Phone 7 has the potential to redraw the smartphone competitive landscape and accelerate the evolution of the mobile value-chain....
Waking the Dragon: The Rise of Android in China
[Android is leading the smartphone revolution in Western Markets. But what about China, the country with the biggest mobile user base?...
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...
Mapping the mobile ecosystem: top-20 most connected companies
Back in March we released the 3rd edition of the Mobile Industry Atlas, the definitive who’s who of the mobile industry. Since its humble...
The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
[Apple has been trumpeting their ‘new’ iPhone 4 FaceTime service, but where’s the novelty? Mobile video telephony has been around for...
Lead, innovate or assemble: three choices for handset OEMs as mobile starts to look like the PC indu
[Android has triggered more changes to the mobile industry than anyone had imagined. Research Director, Andreas Constantinou looks at the...
