A a new online survey conducted by IBM developerWorks among 2000 IT developer in 87 countries concluded that mobile development will become larger than development for traditional computing platform. From an article in OnlySoftwareBlog:
According to the survey, 55 percent of them expect mobile software application development for devices such as iPhone and Android, and even tablet PCs like iPad and PlayBook, will surpass application development on all other traditional computing platforms by 2015.
Industry analysts also are predicting mobile applications sales will undergo massive growth over the next three years, with estimates of mobile application revenues expanding from $6.2 billion this year to nearly $30 billion by 2013.
The Cloud will be a big enabler for this to happen. More and more applications and services will move into the cloud and be provisioned from there. We will most probably also see new types of smartphones, sometimes called mobile cloud phones, that will be particularly designed for accessing apps and services in the cloud as I discussed in an earlier post.
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