RWW Mobile Summit Keynote: Top Mobile Trends of 2010
During his keynote presentation at the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit today, our founder and editor Richard MacManus examined the trends and issues around mobile that we have been tracking here on RWW. Among the topics covered in today's keynote were geo-location, mobile commerce, cloud computing, privacy, and the Internet of Things. MacManus' discussion also touched upon the advantages and disadvantages of mobile websites and native apps.
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Browser-Based vs. Native Apps
Looking at the market for mobile phones, it becomes clear that touch screen-enabled devices are now becoming the norm. According to the latest data from Taptu, there are currently over 326,000 mobile sites on the Web that have been optimized for touch. In addition, there are over 185,000 iPhone apps in Apple App Store and 27,000 Android apps in the Android Market, most of which are connected to the Internet. As mobile browsers have become more capable, though, it is clear that developers can also create very compelling mobile applications in the browser. One of the examples MacManus brought up during the keynote is the HTML5 location-based social network Burbn. As MacManus also noted, even though we tend to talk about native apps a lot, mobile touch websites will be a major trend in the near future, especially for e-commerce sites.
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Fri May 07, 2010 09:35 am
Needed- a Cloud Backplane
Because of my problems reported yesterday in when Google owns you, it dawns on me that there’s a great opportunity here. I need a cloud backplane. I’ll explain.
Okay, for everyone who commented “you should have a backup” or “you should use something else,” here’s what you missed: Google apps allow me to be computer-hardware-independent. I can work out of any browser and get the same experience. Further, Google has collaboration built in. I can have my assistant, my staff, and other key people interact with my data on my behalf. I can’t do that with most of the recommended replacement apps.
So, what *could* be useful?
A cloud backplane, something that obfuscates the bearer levels and the various authentication platforms, that allows me to use whatever front-end I want to move back and forth through it.
If that all sounded like gobble-di-gook, think of it this way: we used to have to use AIM for our AOL friends, MSN Messenger for our MSFT friends, etc,etc. I’m a Mac guy. I use Adium. It lets me communicate via IM with several different types of platforms.
Add collaboration into that, add something like OAUTH, and suddenly, I’m getting closer to having an ecosystem where I can use whatever front end, whatever set of tools, and wouldn’t have to be dependent on one particular ecosystem.
Anyhow, just thinking.
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