At the 4G Wireless Evolution conference earlier this week in LA I moderated the session “The Ecosystem of Application Developers.” On the panel were: Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo; Kent Winter, SVP Sales Apex Voice TS Ramakrishnan, CTO BubbleMotion; Francisco Kattan, Sr. Director Developer Ecosystem Alcatel-Lucent; and Karl Good, Technical Director Truphone. A video of the […]
There’s a great saying from Benjamin D’Israeli, ‘There’s lies, damned lies and statistics.’ To read the press, you’d think the trillion dollar telecommunications industry has been shaken to its core by Apple, a $33B consumer electronics company. In April 2009 the Apple app store achieved 1B ‘application’ downloads in 9 months, estimates vary on the […]
Only a few years ago application developers were spurned by VCs as not being able to generate the returns they seek: ‘only platforms could do that.’ Now there’s a $100M fund for just iPhone apps. Application developers were also subject the vagaries of operators’ new product development teams, who are expert on what will not […]
This article provides a summary of Day Two of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 27th November. Day One summary is covered in this article. Overall Summary Another day dominated by operator SDP presentations, demonstrating the maturity of content based SDPs, some of the challenges in evolving those SDPs, and the emergence of […]
O2 Litmus, O2’s planned co-development community, headed by James Parton is not yet launched, but its unique approach already has the internet chattering about what is coming with articles in Paul Golding’s WirelessWanders, Contagious Magazine, MobileNews, and Infibeam to name just a few. I must disclose that I was fortunate to be asked by James […]
“But shouldn’t our suppliers be building the developer programs?” I hear some operators asking. However, infrastructure suppliers make money by selling boxes, software licenses, maintenance and support; those suppliers do not understand the end customers as well as the operator. If they do, then the operator will likely not be independent for long. There is […]