Overview of the mobile platform and development environment landscape in light of the recent announcements during and around MWC 2011. Presented at the March 2011 Mobile Monday Edinburgh.

1. Mobile Platforms Redux or “platform choice for all right thinking people” Geoff Ballinger VP Engineering Mobile Acuity Ltd. http://mobileacuity.com

2. While working hard in Barcelona I tried to track down the latest info and opinions on the various platforms out there.

3. Where are your users? (lies, damned lies, and statistics!)

5. UK Usage

6. How accessible is it for you? (… and others?)

8. Every client wants an iPhone app

9. BUT lots of established competition.

10. Technically “different” (except for Mac devs)

11. Objective-C based – not like the other children!

12. Relatively easy to bring in existing C/C++

13. Very restrictive deployment process.

15. Google! Usable £80 PAYG devices!

16. Low barrier to entry for java developers

17. Can include native portions – but latest Dalvik VMs very fast anyway

18. Relatively free and easy deployment

19. BUT starting to see significant malware …

20. AND fragmentation ...

21. AND Oracle lawyers ...

25. Existing java devices have huge market share

26. BBM a key part of the mix

27. Now for the rest ...

30. Huge presence/relevance in developing world?

32. Still being pushed by Intel so can't discount it

34. HP will use for phones, tablets, … and PCs and Printers!

35. Webkit + v8 engine – w/ Node.js for services – service bus

36. Mojo for javascript - also native dev kit

37. Ares fully hosted browser based IDE

38. Core of Ares is growing into Enyo - 2 nd gen platform with better structure and much less boilerplate HTML required.

39. Ecosystem a little behind the big 3

40. … but if HP push those new devices!

42. “Wholesale Applications Community”

43. Mobile widget platform based on W3C specs

44. Backed by many of the world's operators

45. App store up and running now

46. Mix of OMTP BONDI + JIL + GSMA OneAPI

47. Probably the quickest/easiest way to publish into the South Korean market!

49. Samsung Bada (aka Symbian take two?)

50. Access Linux Platform

51. Maemo

52. J2ME

53. BREW

54. … and of course don't forget mobile web!

55. … or SMS etc!

57. Still all comes back to the usual things – giving your users products they want to and can use.

58. Lots of web tech based platforms appearing

59. app vs widget vs webapp – do you care?

60. Tablets now part of the picture too

61. What effect will the operators have?

62. Thanks for Listening!