Perry Hoekstra

A number of new reports have come out that document how the iPad/iPad 2 have dominated the tablet market to this point (various statistics put it at Android-based tablets selling about one million compared to Apple’s 28 million iPads sold).  A slew of new Android-based tablets have been released from vendors such as Acer, Asus, […]

Now that the newest Android tablets (Motorola XOOM and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) have come close to matching Apple’s iPad in terms of fit and functionality, I expect the demand for Android tablets to show a marked increase in sales.  There has been a considerable amount of material written around Android smartphone  User Experience (UX) […]

So, you have your shiny new mobile application completed, it has passed QA and you have submitted to the application marketplace for inclusion in their listing of available mobile applications.  A month goes by and you have had hundreds of downloads.  A couple of comments have been posted, pointing out some issues. But for all […]

I will offer a counterpoint to Tabetha’s post.  What does iCloud mean for the users and developers of non-IOS phones, ie. Android?  Many see iCloud as Apple’s assault to stem the dominance Android has shown over the past year.  The Android platform has surpassed the iOS platform in terms of numbers of devices due to […]

If there were not enough “ah-ha” type of technologies pushing the sales of smartphones, one that has not received much love was Near Field Communications.  NFC is a technology for data exchange between compatible devices at close range, about 1.5 inches is the maximum distance. Approved as a standard in 2003, it has stood in […]

Just this morning, I encountered two different articles that discussed the intersection of mobile devices and cloud computing.  At first, I put it down to the accelerated hype that these two technologies have seen over the past couple of years.  The idea that if both are “really good”, then the intersection must be something like […]

A new mobile developer survey has come out and pundits everywhere are trying to decipher and give their insight into who is up and who is down in the mobile development space. What caught my eye was one of the bullet points that focused on tablets: While 71% of developers are very interested in Android […]

Quite a bit has been written in the great smartphone native app versus web-app debate.  For those of you in the audience who have never read about this great schism, here is the Cliff Notes version.  When starting out to create a mobile app, the developer must decide whether to build the application using the […]

I recently gave a presentation on Android Integration to a local Java User Group and I got to talking with one of the attendees after the presentation on some of the points I had brought up in the presentation.  One question was “How did I see enterprise mobile development different from how mobile development is […]

Reading a statistic from an Evans Data report, a survey showed that 73% of major enterprises were already in development or planning to develop mobile applications that extend the reach of their current enterprise software set (called “companion applications”, they offer an additional access path to a given enterprise application by exposing certain functionality within […]

A widely quoted statistic making the rounds of various technical websites and news sites such as CNN is that 1 in 4 applications downloaded to a smartphone is opened only once and abandoned (Source).  Industry pundits have been spinning those statistics in many different ways but what does that mean for our clients who are […]

I have been ignoring this white screen for the past week, intimidated by the idea of coming up with an interesting technical blog on something that I have become passionate about over the past 6 months, enterprise mobile computing.  The reason I qualify this latest buzzword term with the adjective “enterprise” is that CTOs are […]