The Carnival is up (again) at my own MSearchGroove with a selection of solid posts that ask some tough questions and offer some insightful answers.
This week’s line-up:
- Tam Hanna conducts an interview with Resco, a Slovakian company sharply focused on Windows Mobile 7. What’s the view of WM7? What is the likely take-up among enterprise users? Is the timing of the release good for business (literally)? Lots of key questions, so read on and find out.
- Tomi Ahonen provides us a masterpiece of math and logic. His post recounts the key stats we need to know to understand just how much money the Apple App store has made and argues that the numbers spell disaster for developers who hope to make real money selling their apps.
- Steve Litchfield over at allaboutsymbian.com points out that booksmarks may be the best way to get Web content on your smartphone.
- Kudos to Stasys Bielinis over at UnwiredView.com for his keen observations and conclusions from the Droid X launch. What has happened to Motorola’s Android smartphone strategy? Could it be that Google has learned to innovate at Internet speed?
- Taking a similar stance, Sachendra Yadav tracks the evolution of the Android operating system as it takes up the charge to beat back Apple. Consolidating and defining the UI layers in the Android OS is the best solution. But how will handset makers differentiate?
- Steven Hoober over at Little Spring Designs blog walks us through a detailed discussion focused (no pun intended!) on images, resolutions and new approaches that get good images to display even better on a mobile screen.
- Terence Eden provides us a textbook example of bad mobile advertising (badvertising) using the example of an Apple app advert shown on an Android device.
- Volker Hirsch over at Volker on Mobile connects the dots in recent comments by carrier representative to conclude that the classic 50/50 rev share model may be on the way out.
- An emotional plea from Antoine RJ Wright for change in the U.S. mobile market. It may not be everyone’s taste in posts, but there’s no arguing that many customer feel locked in a market that is high on carrier control and low on carrier innovation…
- And finally, my own submission: an update on mobile charity and a look at a successful cancer awareness campaign using barcodes to get the message out.
That’s a wrap for this week. Next week our host is Tomi Ahonen at Communities Dominate Brands.
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