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Editor’s Note: Guest Author Tom Hume is a mobile developer and managing director at Future Platforms, and he runs a well respected eponymous blog at tomhume.org.  Hume is also a member of a UK developer advisory group for Telefonica Developer Communities.

I’ve spent the last 11 years working on mobile apps, 10 of those under the banner of Future Platforms, the Brighton-based software company I set up in 2000. This experience has given me a fair few grey hairs… but also a fairly long-term perspective on the industry. (more…)

Intense competition, excitement and intrigue? An audience of billions, entranced by the genius and performance of a few? An uplifting celebration of a global phenomenon, as teams from all continents and cultures compete for immense reward?

You might be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled upon a blog about the Football World Cup.

But no, I’m talking about the mobile industry at the start of the 21st century. A carnival of competition many times larger and ultimately more significant than even the planet’s biggest sporting event.

But let’s take a closer look at this analogy, and think about some of those involved…
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The Developer Perspective is a column featuring guest authors from our developer community.  Periodically we’ll post an article contributed by one of your peers on topics that inform, reflect and inspire, from – well – the developer’s perspective.  Topics will address

  • business models
  • go to market strategies
  • feedback to operators
  • analytics
  • and more.

Feel free to suggest topics or authors.  We’re listening.

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