Tag: iphone

Security and Selling of Smartphone Applications

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Two posts over on All About Symbian to start the week off, both with an eye on the smartphone application market. The first is about the mixed messages that Nokia are putting on as regards application stores. the Sims 3 mobile game from EA is now available in the Ovi Store (for £4) and the N-Gage Store (for £6). Something is seriously out of whack here. The release of Sims 3 on N-Gage is going to be very interesting for Nokia and Electronic Arts. Why? Because this java-based title is already out there in various formats and locations – which

“Pocket Walsh” Highlights the Problems of Closed Application Store

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Sometimes you wonder if there is any justice in the world. Certainly developers who’ve spent countless hours on iPhone applications and struggled to market them will be looking at iFart (with 30,000 sales at 99 cents per sale) and wondering why they bothered. And then there’s a sneaking suspicion that leisure applications like iFart will cause the App Store to start being more picky in the applications that are allowed onto the store. Which probably means that niche applications that cater to a handful of people will get nowhere. That means the likelihood of Pocket Walsh, reported on today by

Further Thoughts on the Palm Pre; Still Doesn’t Look Enough

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Following on from yesterday’s snap thoughts on the launch of the Palm Pre, the big question is going to be how well it sells. I suspect not as much as many are hoping. From Peter Kafka on All Things Digital: [The new Palm Pre could] try to take market share by coming in significantly lower than the $200 or so Apple wants for its iPhone. But when I ran that theory by Palm CEO Ed Colligan, he looked at me liked I’d peed on his rug. “Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product,” he asked,

Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre

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So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they’ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession. Form the initial looks, I think it’s going to struggle. There’s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it’s running on EV-DO for data 9so it’s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for ‘gestures’; a Qwerty keyboard slides

Dear Apple, Downloads does not equal Developers

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Apple’s CFO has announced 200,000 developers for the iPhone are raring to go, and especially rariing to do enterprise applications. Really? Sounds remarkably like the claims that Palm used to make with the numbers of SDK’s download for Palm OS, and the hundreds of thousands of developers they had… And that platform has, as of today 4484 applications on Pocket Gear. Which is a nice return on the numbers of SDK downloaded. Yes, every platform and manufacturer plays this game, and most rational commentators realise this… I’m just bracing myself for the non-rational commentators that will take this figure with