Mobile applications have piqued the
interest of developers. First, the
iPhone redefined what a phone was: it
looked a lot like a Web browser, really.
Then, Apple opened an iPhone App
store that promised developers an
opportunity to write and sell an application
to a new mass audience. The
year 2009 looks gloomy for mobile
phone sellers. But converged mobile
devices, the kind the iPhone epitomizes,
are expected to fare far better
than traditional ones.
Clearly, when one is on the road,
one sees more and more knowledge
workers pecking away at handheld
devices. Although these machines
have tons more memory than in the
past, they still are basically working
remotely, hitting on a server somewhere,
and dealing with the world via
services.
Behind the scenes will emerge a
whole new class of mobile app development
tools, writes John K.Waters in
our lead story, "Shifting ground for
mobile development."
Meanwhile, writer Patrick Meader
discusses transfer Microsoft developers
in "Goin' mobile with Windows."
Technology writer George Lawton
talks about JavaScript taking advantage
of iPhone resources in his piece
"Create smartphone apps using Java-
Script."Writer Rich Seeley adds IBM's
input in the mobile community in
"IBM preps mobile SOA connection."
There is also plenty of information in
the Mobile development resource
guide.
Download Mobile application development: Making it easier for developers.
