Developers and mobile platforms: lies, damn lies and surveys

By tim, on April 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been reading the IDC/Appcelerator developer survey about their attitudes to mobile platforms. The survey covered 2,760 Appcelerator Titanium developers between April 11-13, so it is certainly current and with a sample just about big enough to be interesting.

The survey asks developers if they are “very interested” in developing for specific platforms, with

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Windows Phone at Mix 2011: what Microsoft said and did not say

By tim, on April 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore (phone VP) and Scott Guthrie (developer VP) took the stage at the Mix 2011 conference in Las Vegas to tell us what is new with Windows Phone.

The opening part of the keynote was significant. Belfiore spent some time talking about the “update situation”.

This is all to

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Nokia’s Elop fears mobile duopoly, but it is already here

By tim, on February 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

It is day two of Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona; and everyone is pondering the implications of Nokia’s Windows Phone partnership with Microsoft. It is a pivotal moment for the industry, but not necessarily in the sense that the two partners hope.

Let me state the obvious for a moment. This is not

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IE9 in Windows Phone will be good for cross-platform JavaScript and HTML5 apps

By tim, on February 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, accompanied by Nokia’s Stephen Elop, showed coming updates for Windows Phone 7 at a Mobile World Congress keynote last night.

A minor update due in early March will add copy and paste, and CDMA support is also coming in the first half of 2011.

The more interesting update is planned

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Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona

By tim, on February 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and if you need any convincing about the power shift towards mobile in the industry, simply being here may be sufficient. Spread over 8 vast halls, it is huge, with 1361 exhibitors according to the latest available figures.

The size of the event makes it

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Intel disappointed with Nokia’s Microsoft move, still backing MeeGo

By tim, on February 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel’s Suzy Ramirez has posted about the future of MeeGo Linux following Nokia’s decision to base its smartphone strategy on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Nokia was Intel’s key partner for MeeGo, which was formed by merging Intel’s Moblin with Nokia’s Maemo.

Although Nokia has been an important partner to Intel and MeeGo and

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MeeGo, Qt, and the new Nokia: developers express their doubts

By tim, on February 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

What are the implications of the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft for MeeGo, the device-oriented Linux project sponsored by Intel and Nokia? What about Qt, the application framework that unifies Symbian and MeeGo development?

Here is what Nokia says:

Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will

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Nokia adopts Windows Phone 7: game on

By tim, on February 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Nokia and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership in which Nokia is to adopt Windows Phone as its “principal smartphone strategy”.

There is a smidgen of uncertainty. The release says “Nokia and Microsoft intend…” Still, I think we should assume it will go ahead.

The key elements of the agreement:

Nokia adopts Windows

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MeeGo NoGo: things look bad for the Intel/Nokia Linux project

By tim, on February 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A sad post yesterday from MeeGo contributor Andrew Wafaa suggests that MeeGo on netbooks may no longer happen:

Basically by all accounts MeeGo is stopping all work on the Netbook UX. Yup, all our hard work is now almost for nothing

This is remarkable. The original Moblin project, sponsored by Intel, was all

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Nokia plus Windows Phone 7 – would that be a smart move?

By tim, on February 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The rumour is that Nokia’s CEO, ex-Microsoft Stephen Elop, is planning a major strategy announcement on Friday February 11. The obvious move would be to embrace a new Smartphone platform, since neither Symbian nor MeeGo look likely to catch up with frontrunners Google Android or Apple iPhone. Could Elop be planning to partner with

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