Presentation @ swiss mobicamp
13Jan2012
Meet us at MWC 2012
Andreas Constantinou, George Voulgaris, Matos Kapetanakis, Michael Vakulenko and Stijn Schuermans will be attending the
MWC conference in Barcelona (27 February to 1 March). We’ll be there throughout the week, so
drop us a line if you want to meet up.
13Jan2012
Cross-platform tools survey closed
The biggest survey on cross-platform developer tools is now closed.
Thank you to all those that took the time to participate. The winners of the three prizes will be announced shortly
here.
Subscribe to our newsletter to receive notification of when the results will be out.
20Dec2011
Which are the best cross-platform tools?
We’ve just launched the biggest survey on cross-platform developer tools.The results will be freely available in Q1 2012.
This report will address a segment that is rapidly developing as a convergence of factors has created both opportunity and demand for cross platform solutions.
This research is produced by VisionMobile and sponsored by Marmalade, RunRev LiveCode, Verizon Developer Community, Xamarin, AT&T, Appcelerator, Intel, MoSync and Orange Partner.
To find out more
click here and if you're a Mobile Developer
join the survey and have your say.
30Nov2011
Keynote presentation @ AppCircus Estonia
VisionMobile's Managing Director, Andreas Constantinou, will be giving a keynote presentation at the next AppCircus event in Tallinn, Estonia on 21 November. This event is hosted by
Mobile Monday Estonia.
If you want to meet him there,
get in touch.
14Nov2011
Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems
We've launched our new report, Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems which is a critical analysis of major mobile platforms and their battle for dominance.
In the report we break down Android, BlackBerry OS, BREW, iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone and webOS across key elements such as history and origins, owner agenda, ecosystem adoption, market penetration, technology foundations and application development experience. Clash of Ecosystems is part-funded by
webinos, a project aiming to deliver an Open Source Platform and software components for web applications across mobile, PC, home media (TV/set-top boxes) and in-car devices.
The report is available as a free download
here. Also read analysis of the report in our
blog.
07Nov2011
VisionMobile at Nokia World 2011
Managing Director Andreas Constantinou and Research Manager Seth Wallis-Jones will be attending
Nokia World 2011 (October 26-27).
Drop us a line at hello (at) visionmobile.com if you want to meet up!
24Oct2011
Join Droidcon London 2011
Droidcon London 2011 is Europe's largest conference that exclusively
covers Android development and applications. The event is taking place in London on 6th and 7th October 2011.
The conference has grown tremendously since last year and over 500 Android enthusiasts will be rubbing shoulders with many of the world’s foremost Android experts. The event is themed around Android development in Enterprise, Gaming and Design.
You can register via the Droidcon London 2011 site
here. VisionMobile is a Media Partner for the event, so use the VISION-DROID-150 discount code to register!
19Sep2011
IQ 2011
VisionMobile's Michael Vakulenko is attending
IQ 2011. The 3rd Annual Innovation Qualcomm - IQ - event will take place from 13th & 14th September, 2011, at the Ciragan Palace, in Istanbul.
If you want to meet him there,
get in touch.
07Sep2011
Open Governance Index
VisionMobile have published a new report , the 'Open Governance Index'.
This research report introduces a new way of measuring the openness of open source projects.
The Open Governance Index measures the true openness of eight open source projects - Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse - and analyses how governance, and not licenses, tell the full story of a project's openness, across transparency, influence and control. This research was partially funded by the
webinos project.
Download your free copy
here.
Also, read an analysis of the report in our
blog.
18Aug2011
Mobile 2.0 Barcelona
VisionMobile's Camilleri will be a keynote speaker and part of the opening panel at Mobile 2.0, Barcelona on June 17. The Keynote will be to present
Developer Economics 2011.
Join us there.
16Jun2011
VisionMobile publishes Developer Economics 2011
We have published
Developer Economics 2011, a 60-page free report into how developers and brands are making money in the mobile app economy.
In this second annual report we explore both what drives developer mindshare, and how brands are fast-forwarding into the world of mobile.
The report is available for free download
here, courtesy of
BlueVia.
We’re also doing a 3-part analysis of the report. Visit our
blog and read Part 1 – Winners and losers in the platform race.
08Jun2011
HTML5 and what it means for the mobile industry
VisionMobile have published a new report 'HTML5 and what it means for the mobile industry'.
This research report delves into the impact of HTML5 on the mobile industry – and how operators can compete in the Web 3.0 era.
Download your free copy
here.
Also, read an analysis of the report in our
blog.
06Jun2011
WIP's Muther! of all Hackathons
VisionMobile are media partners at WIP's Muther! of all Hackathons, June 24 - 25 in Mountain View, CA.
This event will include hundreds of developers, tool companies and carriers, investors and other mobile fanatics for a two day adventure of master classes, unpanels, coding, new APIs, prizes, a BBQ and more.
Join us there.
02Jun2011
Mobile Industry Atlas, All-New 4th Edition
We're proud to present the 4th edition of our Mobile Industry Atlas.
The 4th edition features 1,350+ leading mobile companies, across 85+ market sectors, from chipsets & handsets to software & services.
The Atlas now comes with access to our online map.
Find out more here.
01Jun2011
Presenting Mobile Megatrends 2011 in Lund
Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, has been invited by the University of Lund to present Mobile Megatrends 2011, on Tuesday 31 May in Lund, Sweden.
Find out more about the event.
26May2011
Developer Economics coming June 8
We would like to thank all the people who supported the 2011 survey and helped spread the word, as well as everyone who took the time to participate. The prize draw has taken place and we're pleased to announce that the winner of the $1,500 USD Amazon voucher is Avijeet Singh - congratulations!
We are launching the Developer Economics 2011 report at the Open Mobile Summit, on June 8.
Pre-register for a free copy of the report.
18May2011
VisionMobile publishes the 100 Million Club
We've released the H2 2010 edition of the 100 Million Club, our semi-annual watchlist tracking mobile software embedded on more than 100 million devices.
2010 was a year of upsets in the mobile industry, as the league of top 5 handset manufacturers saw the inclusion of pure smartphone vendors (Apple and RIM) for the first time.
Click here to take a look at the winners and losers of 2010.
03April2011
[Infographic] Top 5 Handset OEMs 2001-2010
In the past 10 years, the handset manufacturer landscape has changed dramatically.
VisionMobile has created an inforgraphic which presents the top 5 handset manufacturers from 2001 to 2010.
This infographic tracks the changes in the top 5 OEM leaderboard in the past
10 years, as the handset OEM 'old guard' gives way to PC-borne contenders.
Click here for the full infographic.
21March2011
SlideShare's "most popular of the month'
Our Mobile Megatrends 2011 presentation has been included in SlideShare's "Most Popular of the Month", with more than 30 thousand views just one month after publication. Now in its 4th edition, our annual report analyses the impact of the software world on the telecoms value chain:
- The DELL-ification of mobile: How the mobile landscape is becoming PC-like
- Software: New era for telecoms and the new rules of innovation
- Apps are the new web: Apps as the new information paradigm for web 3.0
- Developers, developers: The engine behind telecoms innovation
- Why carriers are stuck in the telecoms age and how they can compete
You can view Mobile Megatrends 2011 here.
11Mar2011
VisionMobile attending Mobile World Congress 2011
VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou, George Voulgaris, Matos Kapetanakis and Vanessa Measom will be attending MWC 2011 in Barcelona (14-17 February). We’ll be there throughout the week, send us an email at
hello@visionmobile.com if you want to meet up.
03Feb2011
Developer Economics 2011 is here
We’ve just launched Developer Economics 2011, the definitive mobile developer survey.
The research is a follow up to last year’s report, Developer Economics 2010, dubbed by TechCrunch as “one of the most profound…to date”. The results will be freely available in Q2 2011.
This research is produced by VisionMobile and sponsored by
BlueVia. To find out more
click here and if you're a Mobile Developer
join the survey and have your say.
24Jan2011
Meet us at M-Days
Our VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, will be presenting our new Mobile Megatrends 2011 report at
M-Days, held at the Congress Center, Frankfurt between 27 & 28 January.
Let us know if you want to meet up.
Also, Stay tuned for a free copy of the Megatrends report, which should be out within the next few days
13Jan2011
VisionMobile intro on virtualization webinar
Join us at the Red Bend webinar "What's Next in Mobile Virtualization", held on December 16.
The panel consists of VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, who'll be giving a market overview, Ian Forsyth, Product Manager at ARM and Handol Kim and Richard Kinder, Vice Presidents of Red Bend Software.
So, sign up for the webinar and learn what the future holds for the virtualization market.
14Dec2010
Meet us at the Innovation in Mind Conference
Meet up with VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, at the Innovation in Mind Conference, held in Lund on November 11 and 12. Andreas will be speaking on TechnoEconoCulture 2015: how are mobile technology, nu economics and consumer culture mutating in the next 5 years.
Let us know if you want to meet up
11Nov2010
Meet us at FOKUS Media Web Symposium
Meet us at
FOKUS Media Web Symposium in Berlin, November 4-5. Our Operations Director, George Voulgaris, will be giving a presentation titled "Application Analytics: who turned the lights on?" and will participate in a panel on "Mobile application development and distribution"
03Nov2010
Keynote presentation @ MobileAppsWorld conference
VisionMobile Operations Director, George Voulgaris, will be giving a keynote presentation entitled "What 2011 holds for mobile apps", at the
MobileAppsWorld conference, held in London between October 18 and 19.
Give us a shout if you want to meet up.
19Oct2010
Three more blog articles available in Chinese
14Oct2010
Keynote presentation in Info-ComWorld Conference
Our Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, will be the keynote speaker in the
12th Info-ComWorld Conference, held in Athens on October 19.
Andreas will be presenting our research on mobile software trends, and the battle for operating systems, app stores and developer mindshare.
28Sep2010
VisionMobile in “webinos” project
The new, EU-funded project “webinos” is an effort to deliver a standardised technology that will allow web applications to be deployed across a wide range of devices, spanning consumer electronics, cars, PC and mobile –
“one app for all”, as the BBC so eloquently put it!
VisionMobile will be leading the analysis of developer requirements, state of the nation in mobile operating systems as well as open source governance, licensing and IPR frameworks. VisionMobile will also be leading all dissemination activities of the project.
For more information, please visit the official "webinos"
website.
23Sep2010
VisionMobile attending Nokia World 2010
VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, will be attending
Nokia World 2010, that's being held in London next week (September 14 and 15). Send us an
email if you want to meet up.
09Sep2010
Developer Economics also on Intel AppUp
VisionMobile will be presenting
Developer Economics 2010 at
Intel AppUp Elements 2010.
We'll be talking about the "Migration of Developer Mindshare", i.e. the recent shift of developer mindshare from the Symbian & Java platforms to iOS and Android. "Elements" is going to be held in San Francisco, on September 15 & 16.
09Sep2010
Developer Economics goes AppNation
After delivering a very well received presentation of
Developer Economics 2010 at Mobile Monday London last month (even if we do say so ourselves), VisionMobile Associate Eli Camilleri is ready to storm the
AppNation conference.
The conference, held in San Francisco between September 13 &14, focuses on social and mobile apps across all devices & platforms, as well as the role of technology as an enabler.
06Sep2010
Developer Economics Blog Series in Chinese
Our Developer Economics Blog Series, based on the Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond research (free copy
here) will soon be available in Chinese.
The first part of the series, The Migration of Developer Mindshare - 移动开发者经济 2010:开发者心理占有率的转变, has already been translated and is available in the
ifanr website.
UPDATE: The second part of the series, Taking Applications to Market - 移动开发者经济 2010:将程序推向市场, has just been released. Click
here for the translation by ifanr.
UPDATE: The third part of the blog series is now available in Chinese: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications - 移动开发者经济2010:移动应用程序的开发构件, has just been released. Click
here for the translation.
UPDATE: The final part is now available: The Role of Networks in a Developer World -移动开发者经济 2010 :网络在开发者世界中扮演的角色. Click
here for the translation.
26Jul2010
VisionMobile speaks Chinese!
16Jul2010
Developer Economics 2010 in the news
07Jul2010
VisionMobile publishes Developer Economics 2010
We have just published
Developer Economics 2010, a global research examining all aspects of mobile development, from app design and coding to market delivery and monetisation.
The report is based on a survey of
400+ developers, across
all 8 major platforms: iOS (iPhone), Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Phone, Java ME, Flash/Flash Lite, mobile web.
The report is available for free download
here, courtesy of the
Telefonica Developer Communities.
We’re also doing a 4-part analysis of the report. Visit our
blog, and read Part 1 – The Migration of Developer Mindshare.
07Jul2010
VisionMobile Names Top 15 Mobile Software Product
We have just issued a
press release naming the top 15 mobile software products for 2009, in terms of cumulative shipments. These products represent the top half of the 30 products featured in the
100 Million Club, the watchlist of mobile software products embedded in more than 100 million devices.
The 15 products included in our press release have all been embedded in more than 500 million devices as of the end of 2009, while 7 of them have been shipped in more than 1 billion. These products range from browsers and operating systems to Java VMs and messaging middleware.
To read our blog article on the 100 Million Club and download the full report, click
here.
26May2010
Developer Survey: Draw for prizes May 14
Our Mobile Developer Survey has now closed. The results will be available for download around the end of the month. We would like to thank all the people who supported the survey and helped spread the word, as well as everyone who took the time to participate.
We will be holding the draw for the prizes on Friday, May 14. The available prizes are: Nexus One, HTC Touch 2, 1 Amazon voucher worth 500 Euros, 1 Amazon voucher worth 250 Euros and 20
Mobile Industry Atlases.
Update: Winners announced. Click here to see if you are one of them!
03May2010
Magma VC presents Mobile Megatrends '10 in Israel
VisionMobile Research Director, Andreas Constantinou, has been invited to present our Mobile Megatrends 2010, in an invite-only event organised by
Magma VC in Tel Aviv, on Wednesday May 5. The presentation will cover key insights into mobile industry trends, incl. verticalisation, the evolution of revenue models, the long-tail future of app stores, web vs native platforms and why Open is the New Closed. The presentation will be followed by a round table discussion featuring Pelephone’s Guy Bauman, SanDisk’s Moshe Reines and Magma’s Modi Rosen.
You can download a free copy of VisionMobile’s Mobile Megatrends 2010
here.
29Apr2010
BBC looking for best international blogs
BBC
Blogworld is looking for the best international blogs and awaits your suggestions. Starting next week, they will be airing short TV and radio slots in English, Arabic and Farsi, talking to some of the featured bloggers.
If you want to
suggest our blog (nudge, nudge!) please send an email to
super.power@bbc.co.uk or tweet
@bbc_blogworld.
04Mar2010
Mobile Developer Survey: MWC pass winner
We've drawn the lucky winner of a free MWC 2010 pass: Brian Azzopardi. Brian won the pass as a prize for participating in our Mobile Developer Survey.
Fret not, though, there are still many prizes to be won. Apart from 20 Mobile Industry Atlases, we have two massive Amazon vouchers still up for grabs, one worth 500 Euros and the other 250 Euros.
Join in now, win prizes and have your say on the future of mobile development.
10Feb2010
VisionMobile attending Mobile World Congress 2010
VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou, George Voulgaris and Matos Kapetanakis will be attending MWC 2010 in Barcelona (15-18 February). We’ll be there throughout the week, so
drop us a line if you want to meet up.
04Feb2010
Mobile Trends 2020
m-trends.org, one of the most popular blogs on the mobile industry, has been making predictions on future trends for some time now. This year, m-trends called on some of the people that have influenced industry perceptions, asking them to write their five most significant trends for the coming decade.
VisionMobile's Andreas Constantinou, one of the industry influencers invited to join this event, shared his own predictions for the future of mobile, including the future of operators, app stores and open source economics. Read all the 2020 Trends,
here.
11Jan2010
Cybercom’s seminar on Mobile Megatrends
Andreas Constantinou is the invited speaker in the seminar on
Mobile Megatrends 2010, organised by Cybercom. The seminar will take place in Malmö on the 4th of February.
The megatrends to be presented include vertical handset+services propositions, monetization strategies for software companies, web operating systems, open source platforms and mobile app stores.
21Dec2009
Mobile User Experience conference
George Voulgaris attended the
Mobile User Experience conference on 17 and 18 November in London. George was one the judges for the UX Designer Den at 17 Nov in London. Have you attended too or took part in the UX Designer Den competition?
Drop us a line!
20Nov2009
See you at Rutberg Wireless Influencers 2009
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, will be hosting and chairing a panel on software megatrends at
Rutberg Wireless Influencers 2009 next week in Carlsbad, California.
Get in touch if you are in the area and want to meet up.
20Oct2009
OSiM World 2009
Åse Stiller, Jean-Marie André and Andreas Constantinou will be attending the
OSiM conference in Amsterdam (15 – 16 September). Andreas will be briefing at the Breakfast Roundtables and chairing "Stream One" on Day One and Jean-Marie André will be presenting “Open Source Cluedo: Who Benefits From the Crime?” on Day Two.
25Aug2009
Mobile 2.0 Europe
We are proud to be a sponsor at
Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona (18 - 19 June). Andreas Constantinou, Research Director will be part of the panel on Openness on Friday during the event.
Andreas has also written a blog post discussing
Openness and welcomes feedback and questions.
12Jun2009
Interview with Opera Insights
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director has been featured in the
Opera Insights newsletter discussing the mobile widget space.
12Jun2009
75 Great Mobile Twitterers
29May2009
OSIM San Francisco
Åse Stiller presented choices that your organisation can make in an open source world at
OSiM San Francisco on 12 March 2009.
12Mar2009
Open Kernel Labs joins 100 million club
24Feb2009
Mobileidus Corp - Podcast
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, talks about the future of S60 now that Nokia has purchased Symbian, access to source code vs openness, Android, mobile application stores, economics of mobile operating systems and the future of social networking.
Listen to Andreas Constantinou and Erick Eidus here.
12Feb2009
Quote on cellular-news
“Without a doubt, 2008 was the year when open source transitioned from a status of early adoption to one of acceptance and endorsement by the mobile industry as the new recipe for collaborative software development,” commented Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile. “As one of the most prominent integrators for mobile Linux stacks, Wind River fills an important gap within the new mobile economy; customization, integration and validation of open source handset software.” Read
Mobile Linux Group Selects Wind River As Systems Integrator.
10Feb2009
Red Bend joins 100 million club
22Dec2008
Purple Labs joins the 100 million club
Purple Labs has been recognised as only one of 23 companies who have shipped software on over 100 million handsets, and so joins the 100 million club
(see PurpleLabs press release).
19Nov2008
Nuance’s T9 Text Input and VSuite Join 100m club
BURLINGTON, MA, November 20, 2008 — Nuance Communications announced that its T9® Text Input and VSuite embedded mobile speech software were both named to VisionMobile’s 100 million club for the first half of 2008
(see Nuance press release).
20Nov2008
Quote on RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless: “All in all I believe Nemo will either succeed spectacularly or fail into anonymity,” Constantinou noted. “OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) are looking for the exact same capability (Java ME stopgap and Java app store), so there are some really good M&A opportunities there. Otherwise it will fail into anonymity, as with their previous effort of launching an ODP (on-device portal) with Yahoo.”
Read
Startup Everypoint emerges from stealth mode with new app platform.
Mobile Platforms and OS Conference December 2008
Quote on TelecomTV
TelecomTV: “With this formula, the BREW platform has been doing very nicely and now fosters an average of 80 million downloads per month and, according to Andreas Constantinou, Research Director at VisionMobile has garnered over $1 billion in software revenues.”
Read
Qualcomm gives its BREW mobile software environment a lift.
Mobile User Experience Conference November 2008
Handsets Forum USA October 2008
Press Release - October 2008
The Mobile Industry Atlas; First to Bring Clarity Into the Chaos of the Mobile Marketplace
Full press release
Symbian Show October 2008
OSIM World 2008
We'll be attending Informa's
OSiM World 2008 conference in Berlin (16 - 19 September)
We'll be delivering the one-day pre conference Mobile Open Source workshop on September 16th.
See you there!
Quote on Mobile Handset Analyst
Mobile Handset Analyst: "The task of integrating businesses and technologies based in three countries with different international corporate cultures and distinct legacy software stacks to build ALP, and the resulting need to embrace developers from each country, was not easy to pull off, Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, told MHA."
Mobile Handset Analyst, Informa, 22 July 2008
Quote on Information Week
Information Week: "According to Andreas Constantinou, research director at VisionMobile, an open source version of the Symbian OS could have one distinct advantage over Linux-based systems; 'The Symbian Foundation's platform will be backwards compatible with Symbian OS 9, S60 3rd Edition.'"
read:
The Open Source Mobile OS Battle Continues
WIF Magazine - June 2008
Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, wrote an article appearing on the
WIF Magazine titled
Introducing Channel APRU: Making money on the last mile to the user.
Quote on WindowsForDevices
Andreas Constantinou was featured as a guest author on WindowsForDevices.com with an article titled
Symbian + Nokia = Love
See you at Handsets World, Berlin!
We 'll be attending Informa's
Handsets World conference in Berlin on June 10-11. We will also be delivering the post-conference workshop (June 12th) on mobile open source - if you fancy six hours of a deepdive crash course on mobile open source, this is the place and time to be!
Website re-launch (March 2008)
We ‘ve just launched our new website with a completely redesigned look & feel. After a year in the making and working closely with two design agencies, the website is finally alive and kicking. Thanks to Paul at
fifty50 and Savvas at
PeelMe for all their hard work!
Mobile Open Source workshop
Continuing with our successful 360 degree workshop on Mobile Open Source, we ‘ll be delivering the workshop as part of Informa’s Open Source in Mobile conference in San Francisco conference on March 10. This one-day intensive workshop is a must for companies wanting to understand the economics, legal issues and complex landscape of Linux and open source software vendors in the mobile industry, and make informed decisions on their own positioning.
Check here for more info on the Informa Open Source in Mobile conference, or
let us know if you are in the San Francisco area and want to meet up.
Mobile World Congress 2008!
We ‘ll be attending the MWC conference in Barcelona, joining the annual pilgrimage to the industry’s biggest party. If you want to meet up,
drop us a line.