Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Having recently posted about new operating systems for mobile phones and the multitude of platforms that developers would have to develop for it, seems that a whole group of organisations, from network operators to handset makers, are clubbing together to create a common standard that developers can work with. It could be a while before any real progress is made and this tree begins to bear fruit, bearing in mind the hundreds of platforms, software, and hardware that exists already. The original article is from the Guardian and can be found here , where I first read about this being announced at the Mobile World Congress. The press release can be found on Marketwatch . This new consortium's website is at  http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com .

Reading through some reviews and articles of the Mobile World Congress 2010  and seeing Samsung's new Wave phone using their new platform Bada , reminded me of this post about MeeGo , that I made a while ago. The fact is that it is yet another system to develop on and then support, or if the angle of the phone companies is to have a selling point for their phones, whether the average consumer on the street even cares about what operating system their phone uses, unless buying in to a brand like Apple, Google or Microsoft. Developer documentation for Bada can be found at this site - http://developer.bada.com/apis/index.do .