Photo Credit: John Resig
I recently had a conversation with John about the work he’s doing in the mobile space. Here’s that conversation for your listening pleasure:
You Don’t Know Mobile
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Photo Credit: John Resig
I recently had a conversation with John about the work he’s doing in the mobile space. Here’s that conversation for your listening pleasure:
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Was looking forward to listening but i don’t see how on my Android phone. Any chance the mobile version of Webstyle will be more Android friendly in future?
@Jim: For the moment I’m just using a WordPress plugin that displays an HTML5 player. If you’ve got suggestions on how to make the mp3/ogg file more accessible to Android users, I’d be more than happy to oblige. Would a direct link to the file suffice?
@Ara: same problem for me (on the standard browser on android 2.1) – a bit ironic in this case ;)
An additional direct link to the sound file(s) would most definitely be a good thing.
@Jim & @til: I’ve put a direct link to both mp3 and ogg versions of the interview. I hope that helps.
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Much better. Thanks!
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Thanks for putting this together, Ara and John. It’s nice to see progress being made on sorting out this mess.
Is it really true that mobile only accounts for 1% of internet traffic? I wonder where that statistic is from, and how to reconcile that with other studies that predict that mobile web usage will overtake the desktop soon (http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/).
In any case, I think a conservative estimate would be that there will be more focus on mobile in the coming years. We’re already seeing an increased interest from everyone from developers to actual users.
David: You can find additional desktop vs. mobile data here:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200906-201007
Right now (July 2010) it looks like mobile is about 2.7% of the total usage.
Statcounter et al are notoriously bad at reporting mobile stats: a service in English is not going to represent accurate usage in a massive mobile market like Japan.
I see another problem apart from “educating developers”.
It’s really (I mean really) hard for a company to sell “standard” mobile websites. People (clients) want iPhone and Android web applications. They don’t give a crap about the rest.