Comments on: Of Android, iPhone and Mobile Development

By: Elia Freedman

Elia Freedman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:40:28 +0000

Thanks. Very good point. We actually have two companies here with national presence and GSM (T-Mobile being the other). It’s hard to know what will happen here as 4G networks come online and all the US carriers use the same standard.

Elia

By: Per Erik Rønne

Per Erik Rønne — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:32:38 +0000

You write that iPhone has only got one carrier per country. Simply put, this is not correct. In my own country, Denmark, we have four carriers three of whom are selling iPhones. And since iPhones are only bound for six months, people are using the fourth carrier with iPhone too …

The main reason for the iPhone, only using one carrier in the USA is because the AT&T seem to be the only coast-to-coast carrier that uses the international GSM standard. In the rest of the world, we don’t have that problem.

By: Elia Freedman

Elia Freedman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:18:57 +0000

You make me smile, David! I haven’t forgotten about Symbian. The problem for a developer is that most customers don’t know they are running Symbian. There’s a sales problem there for us. (It also happens to be a dwindling market share whose primary device provider, Nokia, is also working on the Maemo operating system. That raises even more concerns.) It feels a lot like Windows Mobile at this point — still there and on many device but not a topic of conversation in the developer community.

Elia

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:14:58 +0000

But you forget about Symbian, which happens to be the OS with biggest market share in the world. But you’re American, right? Typical “not invented here” line of thought..

By: Elia Freedman

Elia Freedman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:24:16 +0000

Good points. I’d argue that making money (beyond hobbyist) on any mobile platform is a problem.