Grow with Global Apps
By Darron | Apps, Best Practices, mLearning, Mobile Devices | No comment yet
Mobile is predicted to be a $119B industry in 2015 (see MobiThinking article). With the current 5 billion mobile subscriptions, 3.8 billion outside the US, it is hard to ignore the burgeoning market and the huge potential for reach. If you’re developing an app in English only, you are ignoring 73% of the mobile market–this is not something a global organization can afford to do.
Windows Phone 7 – all over the place
By Darron | Apps, mLearning, Mobile Devices | One comment so far
I’ll admit that I’m so cheap I do not yet have a smart phone or other cool mobile device for personal use. I want one though, and I know it’s only a matter of time before I’ll have to get one just to turn on the lights in my house–so I study the heck out of them.
Recently, I worked on localizing some elearning modules for Windows Phone 7. I must say that I liked what I saw, and I saw it over and over again as I rolled the modules out into various languages. I love the live tiles and the hubs, especially the People hub with its Facebook integration. The real-time videos of navigating through the various features looked pretty good, and it seemed to zip through. It clearly was designed, as Microsoft claims, for a ‘glance-and-go’ experience that is much more desirable than an app-centric environment. I got very excited about this new look and feel that Windows had produced. It’s a far cry from the Windows-lite Microsoft has been trying to pass off as smart phone OS for the past 10 years, and I was sold.
