I was at part of the Open Mobile Exchange at OSCON today, so here are a few scraps of notes that I found interesting (from various speakers).
While we do live in the shadow of the iPhone now, this is going to change.
Every person in the modern world uses Linux multiple times EVERY DAY (even if you don’t know it). Linux is everywhere.
The AppStore is something that’s making the iPhone rock. The reason Windows is so popular, is because there are so many applications. This is changing in the open mobile world: think Android, for example.
There are 3.3 billion mobile phones (more than PCs, cars, telephones, credit cards, and TV even).
When Apple sends a million phones in the weekend, its a drop in the ocean when Nokia sells a million phones a day! The iPhone is about usage (German iPhone users use 30 times more data; Google notices 50 times the number of searches from iPhone usage)
- User Interface – Vimeo has a video, “OpenMoko train wreck” which compares to why its a FAIL versus the iPhone
- Access to Device Characteristics (camera, location, accelerometer, network, security, privacy) – today you really don’t get access to this, this needs to happen, really!
- Standards
- Performance – Firefox 3 for example, is very performance oriented. Remember, we’ve become bandwidth gluttons (webpage size has tripled since 2003… 22 times since 1995!). We’ve all been spoiled by having high broadband connection… look at Yahoo!’s 14 Performance Rules (34 today).
There are numerous mobile web browsers, and so little documentation about them today.
Leveraging Mobile Open Source for New Wireless Apps and Services
Stefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager
(instead of Hal Steger)
- Push email, PIM synchronisation
- Younger generations are using more than just voice, in mobile – its SMS, data, chat
- Nokia Ovi (http://www.ovi.com/) – Nokia is using this to monetise user generated content
Average American gets 3,000 visual stimulus messages per day. That’s a lot of advertising!