In addition to being one of the "old timer" PowerBuilder kernel programmers, Reed is the development lead for PocketBuilder and currently drafted in PowerBuilder 11 & 12 work. Reed is also a regular (and vocal) member of the Boston PocketPC user's group. He often bring his latest hardware and sometimes offer PocketBuilder as a door prize - even though this is hosted by Microsoft! If you live in the Boston area, stop on by: http://www.bostonpocketpc.com
Some interesting numbers about worldwide market shares of Smartphones (not
dumbphones since those are so uninteresting to me).
First - the handset sales - for Q1-2009 (Gartner link (1) below)
a) Total Smartphone sales over 36.4 Million units, 12.7 percent from same
period last year.
b) Regular mobile phone sales of 269 Million units, an 8.6 percent decrease.
Another report contained the OS break outs - for Q4-2008 (Gartner link (2)
below)
a) Rank 1 - Symbian - 47% sales market share
b) Rank 2 - RIM - 19%
c) Rank 3 - Windows Mobile - 12%
d) Rank 4 - iPhone - 10%
A totally different site, tracks advertising "traffic" - a side effect of the
online browsing advertising impressions.
This site (www.admob.com) shows that active mobile web users are by far
iPhone/iTouch users.
These n... (more)
Reed Shilts' Blog
People have been asking again about the PocketBuilder roadmap and its
state...
(a) PocketBuilder 2.0.4 - EBF #5 is wending its way through all the paperwork
to be released onto the download site.
(b) PocketBuilder 2.1 -
a major update (but not requiring a migration) will soon be looking for some
beta testers. I was hoping to start the beta program right after Easter,
b... (more)
A shortcoming of PocketBuilder 1.x and 2.x has always been the difficulty in
accessing Web Services. This shortcoming had always irritated us, but the
limitations of the PocketPC and the size of the traditional PowerBuilder
approach prevented us from providing an adequate traditional solution. We
have a sample up on CodeXchange that wraps a simple API around the free
"Pocket SOAP" client... (more)
In addition to being one of the "old timer" PowerBuilder kernel programmers, Reed is the development lead for PocketBuilder and currently drafted in PowerBuilder 11 & 12 work. Reed is also a regular (and vocal) member of the Boston PocketPC user's group. He often bring his latest hardware and sometimes offer PocketBuilder as a door prize - even though this is hosted by Microsoft! If you live in the Boston area, stop on by: http://www.bostonpocketpc.com
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