The development of applications for mobile devices has been on the rise over the past few months in Edinburgh universities and Scotland in general. The main reason for that is the increase in the population of mobile devices: iPhone, Palm Pre, Nokia Exx & Nxx, BlackBerries, etc. At the moment, the two main platforms are Apple’s iPhone App Store and the Google’s Android Market. Other manufacturers are working on their own platforms too: BlackBerry’s App World, Nokia’s Ovi Store, or Palm’s App platform; these are either not ready or not as appealing as the first two (lack of demand for applications, smaller number of users, no interoperability etc). (more…)
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Mobile applications & development hype in Scotland – the new gold rush?
Posted in Opinions, tagged application development, blackberry, iphone, mobile platforms on 20 June, 2009| 2 Comments »
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