What’s the deal about app stores?
No doubt the AppStore on iTunes has awakened the non-wireless industry to the potential of mobile content. It has caused a flurry of announcement from companies entering the space, from mobile operators such as Vodafone and giant tech companies such as Microsoft (hey Amazon, where are you?).
But lately, the concept of app stores have gotten [...]
Hey, Google: Please don’t destroy Android!
In the spirit of Tomi Ahonen’s open letter to Steve Ballmer and Microsoft on their lack of a proper mobile strategy (albeit a lot more friendly than Tomi’s), I feel the need to write this letter to you Google. Android has generated more excitement among the developer community than anything besides the iPhone. You even [...]
Should you care about the size of mobile marketing?
As a former analyst and researcher, I find myself somewhat ambivalent about research reports that deal with the size of the growth of a new market. At Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Knowledge I had access to all the research in the world, and I recall vividly creating PPT presentations and reports explaining how [...]