The Windows app store a.k.a Windows mobile marketplace is open. On the same line of iTunes appstore, Android store and Adobe market place.You can buy your app online and the you get a link for downloading it.
An interseting article on why we should design first an application for a mobile device.
1. Mobile is exploding
2. Mobile forces you to focus
3. Mobile extends your capabilities
Yes it’s done, In Flash CS5, you can export you as3 coded application into a native iPhone application. This is a great news from Adobe Max, and it will boost the number of new application for iPhone. It’s great, remember how many flash developer and flash application exist compare to the specific iPhone SDK developer. So now, you can produce a RIA usinf flash/flex and distribute it to every devices (phones,desktops, browsers) you want.
Google has just launched a new version of their search engine for mobile devices.
What’s new? The geo-localized search, of course!
Adobe released Distribution Manager a Flash platform Services which is able to “free and paid methods for distributing applications to social networks, mobile devices, and desktops”. It is develop with “Air”. It will be a part of a new set of services.
Features : Sharing, Promotion, Ad hosting, Tracking.
Percent Mobile is a web service that give you some reports on what kind of mobile viewers are visiting your website.
You just have to add a little tracking code, and then you can access for free the stats : How many percent are using this device (brand, device, network, countries)
So finally the website is building some stats based on Traffic from mobile phones to websites (desktop and mobile)
ex:
Mobilecrunch describe an intersting case about the famous application taptaptap. The app is on 2nd place in the App store and brings $6300 a day!
Yes there is always an app for that.
Smoking Apps is a brand new fresh website that list and highlight the best mobile applications for every OS i.e Symbian, Android, Windows mobile, BlackBerry, Palm and of course iPhones.
The good thing is that it is Sociable. Members can submit their reviews.They can comment or rate.
You can sort applications by price or date or rating. They got a quite good list for now and it’s growing.
They also feature 1 application by week.
It’s always good to know what’s going on, and being updated. Bookmark it asap!