Category: Mobile Development
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
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Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog
Another very insightful article from VisionMobile. What I thought was very interesting was that the author sees handset manufacturers adopting web technologies as a primary way delivering apps to a non-iphone and non-Android handsets. via Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 | VisionMobile :: blog.
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Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare | VisionMobile :: blog
Thanks to Ian M. for pointing out this great report (pdf) on mobile app development. In gives a very comprehensive view of the development ecosystem. Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond via VisionMobile :: research reports. Here is a small except taken from the author’s synopsis in his blog. The charts in the original article…
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Android phone sales up 1,309% • The Register
It’s been a good year for Android-based smartphones: their worldwide sales are up 1,309 per cent, year-on-year, according to research outfit Canalys. via Android phone sales up 1,309% • The Register. I am developing several products in the belief that “Android + Cloud” is a gamechanger so this is good news.
Dr James Bayley 