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Articles related to all mobile platforms or cross platform technologies

Mobile developer economics

By lalit | Published: July 12, 2010
If you have not already done so, I would strongly recommend you to read up Andreas’s blog about Mobile developer economics here. When Andreas says developers, he doesn’t just mean the individual developers but the whole Mobile app publishing industry. Most interesting bit he notes is that Mobile developers are choosing platforms based on Monetization [...]
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SMS based apps, killer content delivery mechanism ?

By lalit | Published: July 10, 2010
What’s great with SMS as medium? It’s one medium that can reach all the mobile users without any issues of handset compatibilities and so on It’s a push mechanism by definition It’s offline (lesser spammy than a voice call) It’s extremely cheap (at least in India) What’s not so great? It’s very difficult to make [...]
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Is there a business model for a downloadable app

By lalit | Published: July 8, 2010
Every now and then people talk to me about converting their kickass idea into a downloadable mobile application. The reasoning goes that “Everyone is going  to use it”.  Well here is some light on the actual data from app stores so far. I have taken some reference data from pluggd.in, readwriteweb and pinch media. As [...]
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Browser is the new OS even for Mobile phones

By lalit | Published: March 5, 2010
At Mobisy we always believed that the future of Mobile computing is in the cloud. And Browsers are the doorways to access the rich information available over Internet. But on the other hand, mobile device native applications provide much richer functionality that browsers cannot match. Our platform mobitop was born, exactly to solve that problem. We [...]
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How to improve usage of Mobile Applications

By lalit | Published: October 21, 2009
It’s one thing to generate downloads for your application while it’s completely another thing to generate usage and hence value. Recent post from Ashish again highlighted this issue to me. Our experience in working with various companies to develop their Mobile applications has taught us some valuable lessons, so here I am sharing some insider [...]
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