http://rhomobile.com Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:20:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There were many exciting announcements today at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. The biggest ones all emphasize just how much crossplatform diversity is here to stay and the diversification is only accelerating. The Wholesale Applications Community finally creates a viable app marketplace for phones beyond the ... http://rhomobile.com/2010/02/15/gsm-world-congress-crossplatform-diversity-only-accelerating-rhodes-1-4-released/ I was pleased to see today's article in Mobile Enterprise Magazine on open source for mobility. It was great to see Rhomobile recognized again as the leader in smartphone app frameworks for the enterprise. This includes apps such as Aeroprise's mobile BMC Remedy and OpenHealth's mobile SugarCRM. But we're ... http://rhomobile.com/2010/01/22/information-utilitarian-apps-for-consumers-infotility/ Google has finally admitted, and the pictures are finally appearing of their own branded Android phone, called the Nexus One. It will be keyboardless, slighter longer than the iPhone and thinner. It will also not be tied to any particular carrier. We think this has several implications for app ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/12/14/the-gphone-arrives/ The latest Gartner report on future smartphone market share was an interesting read, as reported by Register Hardware. It fleshed out what we've been saying for a while: device diversity is only increasing Specifically it predicts that Android will surpass iPhone in market share by 2012. It also makes a ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/12/05/device-diversity/ We've had over a thousand customers sign up to the RhoHub service over the last month since we launched on November 4th at the iPhone Developer Summit. They are now asking "ok I've built my app really quickly. Now what do I need to do to ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/11/30/gpl-and-dual-licensing/ Smartphone apps are the most exciting trend in computing since the advent of web apps. How do you as a developer take advantage of this? More generally, how do you do that and get maximum reach for your app across the diversity of smartphones out there. If ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/10/19/building-smartphone-apps-the-alternatives/ Friday I'm speaking at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Mountain View. The topic is "iPhone for Business", which, if I took the topic literally, raises many issues about distribution and maintenance of smartphones in the enterprise. But I'm really just going to focus on the narrower issue of ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/10/13/smartphone-apps-for-business/ Yesterday RIM announced their Widget SDK. We're excited about about this at Rhomobile because it is further validation of the strategy to utilize developer's web skills to build great native apps. We often find ourselves having to explain "yes - it does let you write your interface in ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/10/07/web-development-skills-to-build-native-smartphone-apps-the-ruling-trend/ Our open source framework Rhodes contains the first implementation of Ruby for every major smartphone operating system: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian. The primary benefits of the Rhodes framework are: the productivity and portability enabled by writing interfaces in HTML once (and compiling to native smartphone apps), access ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/09/22/the-first-mobile-ruby/ Rhodes is a great option for allowing developers to write their smartphone apps one time and have them run natively on all devices. After being out for a while several competitors emerged and now we have a product category known as the "smartphone app framework", with several participants. ... http://rhomobile.com/2009/09/12/the-enterprise-smartphone-server/