In the NY Times, I found an article called "A Conference Keen on Finding Open Communication". Basically what this article is talking about is the competition between mobile softwares. This year the Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona,Spain. Michael O'Hara organizer of this event said "We are creating islands of applications out there that can't communicate with each other." This conference will help educate software developers on the idiosyncrasie of designing apps for their phones.
For most carriers the mobile Web is fractured and not developed to its full capacity in order for people to do what they want on the web. But the iPhone on the other hand has a lucrative app market, making other companies wanting to mimic them. Last year $4.2 billion were sold in iPhone applications. Apple made $1 billion in 2009. This year Apple is expected to rise to 62%, $6.8 billion.
"Most operators are selling the same phones for roughly the same price. They seek unique applications for differentiation, but it has frgamented the market," says Thomas Kaehler, founder of Communology, mobile appl developer in Germany.
