Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps
The desire to “consumerize” mobile apps for their own sake is stoking today’s outsized enthusiasm with device-specific enterprise mobile apps at a time when HTML5 is right there staring us all in the face. Tony Byrne, Enterprise 2.0 B.S. List: Term No. 1 Consumerization The runaway success of the iPhone app store has demonstrated that […]
Mobilize 2010: Revisiting Web Apps – Native Apps Debate
Yesterday, at Mobilize 2010, a conference organized by GigaOm on mobile technologies, there was a panel discussion on “Apps Vs Web: The Fight For The Future”, moderated by Dr. Phil Hendricks. They had panelists from both sides of the debate and it was one of the interesting panels based on my interests. Basically, the panelists […]
Google Push Notification For iPhone: Does It Matter For iPhone Users?
Google yesterday updated its Google Mobile app by adding push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The idea is to notify the users about new mail or calendar events through push notifications on top of Google Mobile app and when the users click to view them, they will be taken to the web interface of Gmail […]
Will Free Decimate Freemium/Paid Mobile Apps?
ABI Research, a market intelligence company specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology, has released a new report on the mobile market that proclaims the death of paid mobile apps and freemium apps. Some of the predictions from the report include Mobile application downloads to reach five billion by 2014 from 2.3 billion in 2009 […]
