MobileBeat2009 speakers: Nokia board member Tero Ojanpera, Palm’s Michael Abbott
We’re delighted to announce two of the speakers at our MobileBeat2009 conference, to be held in San Francisco on July 16.
The conference comes at a time of considerable tension in the mobile industry: Apple is getting ready to release the next version of its iPhone this month, containing a bunch of new features, even as other players such as Nokia, Palm, Google/Android and Microsoft are unleashing — or are about to unleash — credible alternatives.
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Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks!
Yesterday I wrote about Ewan MacLeod’s claims that Silicon Valley developers are missing out on potentially lucrative markets by ignoring Nokia’s Ovi Store. I titled the post “iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers,” and a number of developers took offense. Most notably, well-known blogger and mobile developer Mike Rowehl. Since then, we’ve seen developers list the panoply of challenges they face when designing for platforms other than the iPhone.
Here’s a sampling of their responses:
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