I was listening to a webinar the other day about RUM (Real User Monitoring). Through RUM, it was clear that iPads performed worse than iPhones and desktops on a given site. Performance meaning general speed of rendering. Speculation among the audience was that if this is because iPads are generally older than smartphones and for that […]
In the beginning of every new year, I try to sum up what’s going on in the mobile industry. Not to make a top 10 trends list, but for my own education. My thoughts this year goes along the same lines as last years post: The main use case for the web is mobile (In […]
The German mobile retail market grew by 112% in 2011 25% of European Xtreme shoppers shop using mobile phones or tablets more than in the past51% of US Xtreme shoppers use search engines as shopping tools 58% of European Xtreme shoppers use search engines as shopping tools 33% of retailers operate a mobile channel, up […]
Distribution of smartphone platforms are very different between US and Europe. Source Source And same stats but from Nielsen
When you are into something with the purpose of making a difference, take something to the next level and you are idealistically motivated (like me in mobile), it is always great to see presentations like this. Especially in a business like mobile because mobile is under high pressure of proving that it is possible for […]
Googles EMEA Head of Mobile, Ian Carrington, visited Oslo recently. Unfortunately, I didn’t know so I could not be there when he boldly pointed out that if you company did not have a mobile friendly web presence, you will loose market share. He also predicts that mobile commerce and advertising will grow significantly by 2015. Here […]
Earlier this year, I wrote a short post comparing the number of downloads in the Apple Appstore to number of searches on the mobile web. Now, new reports suggests that the number might be 15% (paid search) If Google then has in the area of 90 bill searches per month, and 15% of these are from […]
Mobile Ajax and the so called “mobile web 2.0” is a hot issue now adays with the iphone and all… I have done some testing just to learn how much ajax one really can expect on current mobile devices. Hope your device supports ajax now then… The web browser on newer nokias should support most […]