Carnival of the Mobilists #184
July 31st, 2009 MobileFreak
At this week’s Carnival #184 the team at idlemode.com guides us through a breadth of topics from convergence to apps to widgets and webs and the Pre — showcasing ideas from mobile’s top bloggers.
MM take #1: We hope the Pre is a Pre-lude to a better phone.
MM take #2: There’s a great deal of talk in this week’s Carnival around the Mobile App Stores vs. the Mobile Web debate. Our take is, go where the growth is and don’t bet the farm on one side of this argument. Yes, mobile apps are seeing huge growth largely due to the iPhone App Store success, and Android will help push that a bit higher as well. That said, there will always be a need for the mobile web, and Dennis Bournique at WAP Review could be hitting it right on when he says that the mobile web could indeed be a better platform as these apps need to scale.
But at this point, you should simply position yourself to take advantage of where the near term growth is, knowing that both are going to be around for a long time to come.
Entry Filed under: Carnival of the Mobilist, android, iPhone
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I personally think it’s great to see the birth of mobile web being introduced on a higher scale. Mobile web right now is in its infancy, and it’s surprising that the majority of the popular sites out there do not welcome or have not adapted to the mobile web platform.