Comments on: For Some App Developers Palm & Nokia Are No-Gos

By: How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind

How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:01:58 +0000

[...] not alone, as I pointed out earlier. According to some reports, Nokia’s Ovi store is being ignored by developers, even though [...]

By: Technic News » Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks!

Technic News » Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks! — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:00:26 +0000

[...] the way, a recent study of location-based app developers by Skyhook Wireless (and covered here by GigaOm) shows that Google’s Android platform may actually be drawing more developer [...]

By: Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks! » VentureBeat

Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks! » VentureBeat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:26:31 +0000

[...] the way, a recent study of location-based app developers by Skyhook Wireless (and covered here by GigaOm) shows that Google’s Android platform may actually be drawing more developer [...]

By: Arjun

Arjun — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:57:30 +0000

I get the feeling the survey was responded to by the actual developers and not the business managers. Technology folks will want to port to Android and iPhone. Business folks will want to deploy on Symbian, WinMob for recurring revenue as an established model, and to Android,iPhone in the possible hope that their respective appstores get them some recurring revenue (which is, till today, questionable as a sustainable business from the app developer perspective)

By: adajohns

adajohns — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:25:27 +0000

the low numbers for Nokia reflect the market share for Nokia in the US…what’s the big surprise?

By: thegeniusfiles

thegeniusfiles — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:12:44 +0000

I don’t blame developers for being leery of Palm. Palm screwed its Palm OS developers royally, beginning with its adoption of WinMo, and any serious businessperson would be foolish to forget that. Palm has suffered from bad management for an astonishingly long time – and WebOS doesn’t fundamentally change that fact. Still, I hope they succeed with it. I will definitely give it serious consideration – along with Blackberry, Nokia, Android and iPhone. However, if I had to bet on it, I’d pick Android as the likely winner in the long run.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:22:21 +0000

Speaking of WebOS, does anybody know if apps written for the Pre version of WebKit will run in Safari?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:40:02 +0000

Wonder how WebOS is going to fair..that will be a huge indication of how well the Pre competes with iPhone..good thing Apple is coming with new hardware..I need a better CPU in my “phone” or toy or whatever else you call this device..with a better keyboard I’d buy an apple touch netbook..I mean I did this caption on my iPhone..

By: Joseph Kingsbury

Joseph Kingsbury — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:09:27 +0000

More background on the survey respondents would be good. But just because it’s not entirely scientific doesn’t render the basic insight useless. Location means more targeted and relevant (and potentially timely) information of all kinds, which points to a significant opportunity for marketers, consumers and hence developers.

Joseph Kingsbury, Text 100
http://www.twitter.com/jkingsbury

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:03:28 +0000

In other news, my ice cream man did a survey that found that 98 percent of neighborhood children loved ice cream, and that they wouldn’t go outside on a summer day without it. (The other two percent were grounded because they had been naughty.)