Mobile

Windows Phone bigger than iOS and BlackBerry by 2015

by Peter Horsten in Market research,Mobile

Nokia Windows Phone impression Today IDC released their new mobile market forecasts. Neither the fact the smartphone market is supposed to grow in 2011 nor the forecast the Android market share will keep increasing are surprising.  But their 2015 forecast is rather unexpected. IDC expects by that time Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile will have a market share of about 21%. Still far behind Android which is supposed to have a market share of about 45% by then, but Windows is supposed to be bigger than iOS and BlackBerry. For many mobile software developers this might mean they will have to consider a focus shift. Read the full article →

The amazing history of the computer, the future is mobile

by Peter Horsten February 23, 2011 Best practices
Thumbnail image for The amazing history of the computer, the future is mobile In today’s computerised world it’s hard to imagine there were times without computers and phones. Honestly, I recently noticed it how difficult it was to explain my three sons that I neither used a computer, calculator nor a smartphone when I had their age. Yesterday, during a lecture, I admitted I almost wouldn’t know how [...]
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Do you remember the days we didn’t have a mobile?

by Peter Horsten February 2, 2011 Market research
Today we are so used to our mobile (smart) phones. Could you live without it? Honestly, I think I couldn’t. Whenever and wherever we are we feel the need to communicate with each other. We want to update our friends and followers where we are and what we are doing. And in some years time this behavior will change dramatically [...]
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4 ways to make your website mobile friendly

by bmazurek September 14, 2009 Mobile
Do you realize that more than 2.5 billion people use mobile phones and every minute this amount increases by another thousand. We cannot forget that over 30% of these users, use their cell phones to surf the web and more importantly the prices for using this service are continuously dropping . Therefore, I decided to [...]
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How Facebook 3.0 for iPhone turned me into a Facebook fan

by Peter Horsten September 3, 2009 Best practices
Last week I mentioned many people were waiting for the Facebook 3.0 update on the iPhone. Honestly, I wasn’t. I used not to be such an intensive user of the previous version. The interface didn’t satisfy me, besides hardly any of my European friends were using Facebook and Twitter took most of my “free” time. [...]
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Why iPhone is beating the Blackberry

by Peter Horsten July 9, 2009 GOYELLOblog
For a long time the Blackberry was the mobile device of choice for the enterprise users. Recently this is changing. Some months ago I had to choose myself between a Blackberry and an iPhone. The elegant, very intuitive and smooth interface of the iPhone occurs to attract more and more business users.
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