I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion entitled “Software Platforms for Mobile and Wireless Computing” at the InterOp / Mobile Business Expo show in New York (next to the Web 2.0 conference) last week, and it reiterated what we’ve been seeing in the market as well.

First off, thanks to fellow panelists David Birnbach, CEO of Vaultus Mobile Technologies, Jeanne Kolesnik, Business Development Director, of Paragon Software Group, and Agam Singh, VP of Product Management for Slifter - and of course our moderator Michael Miller of PC Magazine for generating a good discussion (and making sure we didn’t bore the audience with any PowerPoint slides)!

The lively discussion centered around the fact that a mobile developer these days has to make a lot of decisions before even getting started.  Specifically what platforms they will support.  Michael summed it up quite nicely over at his blog, Forward Thinking, here:

It is worth pointing out that as more and more players start promoting their own app stores and distribution channels, that this too will become a choice a developer/publisher has to make.  In the long run, it probably doesn’t make sense to have one single app store for everything, but this market fragmentation in the distribution of mobile apps is now expanding and adding an additional layer to the already complex development, testing and porting issues.

Tags: apps, complexity, Fragmentation, Mobile, Mobile App, Porting

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