In an interesting article on TheInformation.com, Tom Dotan published the following chart: It shows the big lead Google has over its competitors in the mobile space regarding Average revenue per user (ARPU). Tom Dotan also uncovers that the industry is…
November 14th I gave a presentation on the Internet of Things to students in their final year at the Karel De Grote Applied University of Antwerp. The preparation was an interesting journey for me. It (re-)confirmed that there is traction,…
In a sense a banking app on a mobile phone is already ‘Wearable’. Yet having apps on a Smart Watch or other ‘really’ wearable devices will allow us to do all kinds of new interesting interactions in general and with…
With facebook, LinkedIn going off the Hybrid route a year or two ago and now with Asana also leaving the path of hybrid one might think hybrid apps have no place in Appland. However, some banks seem to have made…
In the interesting article Games Take Center Stage in Mobile Ad Surge on The Information, Walter Driver, CEO of Scopely, a mobile game publisher, calls Facebook “a very elaborate platform for routing people to the apps that are most relevant…
Just when we thought we don’t need to worry too much about web site performance anymore, because PCs seem to have unlimited performance and are connected to broadband networks, come along mobile devices that are very capable yet resource restrained…
[Originally posted on rtos.be] “Almost-Scrum” or what is also known more generally speaking as the Avalanche Model is not a good project approach to find yourself in with your development team. On Wiki you’ll find the following description: “The Avalanche model is a Software Engineering…
Introduction Talk about a difficult area of mobile development. Testing mobile applications and Web Sites. First we need to decide which platforms we wish to test: What is the lowest iOS device we’re testing on? 3GS, 4, 4S? (Worse) What…
Many cross-platform development frameworks exist in “native”, html or hybrid forms. It is very time consuming to track all these technologies, let alone implement a non-trivial application in each one of them. This is, however, exactly what the people at…
As we saw, Conway’s law states that you cannot design architectures that differ much from the organization’s communication’s structure. Clayton Christensen explains that big companies have a hard time innovating (read The innovator’s dilemma). And that most innovation happens outside…