Aug 9th 09
Why Care About Networked Consumer Device Platforms?
For digital product designers, networked consumer device platforms are here now and growing:
50 million Blackberry devices(not sure how many of them were true smart phones) sold (source)
26.4 million iPhone smart phones sold (source)
18 Android phones are due to come to market this year (source)
25,000 Palm Pre smart phones sold (source)
14.6 million netbooks were sold in 2008 (source)
Recent data...
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Aug 9th 09
Networked Consumer Device Platforms
In Digital Product Platforms, I outlined some of the technological capabilities seeing more common use through popular networked consumer device platforms. But what is a networked consumer device platform? Let’s break it down:
Networked: able to get itself online and thereby read and write Internet content or run services from “the cloud”
Consumer: designed and intended for everyday...
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Aug 9th 09
Mobile Apps vs. Web Apps
Today news sources (like the BBC) are trumpeting the market for mobile applications will become “as big as the Internet.” Clearly, we’re not going to have as many applications on any specific mobile platform as on the Internet at large. So what’s the story here?
Mobile app stores can provide access to the few services that matter online. Therefore they can deliver the top sites...
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Aug 9th 09
Mobile Apps: In the Store or the Browser?
With recent announcements that Verizon and Symbian are both jumping into the app store fray, the number of mobile application development options for software providers begins to looks unmanageable. Consider the list so far:
Apple’s App Store
Google’s Android Market
Nokia’s Ovi Store
Research in Motion’s Blackberry App World
Palm’s App Catalog
Microsoft’s Skymarket
Verizon’s...
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Aug 9th 09
Follow-ups: 07-10-2009
Follow-ups for Hardware Becomes Software
“Apple fanboys might still be drooling from the iPhone 3Gs announcement, but I bet they never saw this coming: an electric superbike with an iPhone for all its instrumentation.” – Electric Superbike Uses iPhone For Its Dashboard, Gas 2.0 (thanks Vincent)
“Now the smartphone is beginning to displace yet another stand-alone device — the GPS receiver...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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