Comments on: Mobile opportunities http://davepress.net/2010/04/21/mobile-opportunities/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://davepress.net/2010/04/21/mobile-opportunities/comment-page-1/#comment-6789 Dave Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:12:11 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3597#comment-6789 I dunno Matt... I suspect it might be a bit chicken and egg. Even in terms of smartphone OSs, Symbian is a major player in terms of numbers of users. As you say though, all these Nokia owners aren't using it much to access online services. Now, why is that? Is there an argument to say that they don't use apps because nobody has developed any good ones, and that the developers won't build anything cool because nobody uses apps on Symbian? I dunno Matt… I suspect it might be a bit chicken and egg. Even in terms of smartphone OSs, Symbian is a major player in terms of numbers of users. As you say though, all these Nokia owners aren’t using it much to access online services.

Now, why is that? Is there an argument to say that they don’t use apps because nobody has developed any good ones, and that the developers won’t build anything cool because nobody uses apps on Symbian?

]]> By: Matt Jukes http://davepress.net/2010/04/21/mobile-opportunities/comment-page-1/#comment-6779 Matt Jukes Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:43:34 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3597#comment-6779 I think these figures can be a bit misleading really - while Nokia still dominates the handset market worldwide it does so mainly off the back of its lower end phones on which the mobile internet is a stretch at the best of times. iPhones and Android phones (plus Blackberry) make up a huge % of the actual amount of mobile internet activity that is happening according to most stats I've seen and that plus a successful infrastructure to distribute (and sell) their apps seems to be why developers focus on them. I think these figures can be a bit misleading really – while Nokia still dominates the handset market worldwide it does so mainly off the back of its lower end phones on which the mobile internet is a stretch at the best of times.

iPhones and Android phones (plus Blackberry) make up a huge % of the actual amount of mobile internet activity that is happening according to most stats I’ve seen and that plus a successful infrastructure to distribute (and sell) their apps seems to be why developers focus on them.

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