{"id":868,"date":"2008-07-22T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-07-22T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T05:38:02","slug":"notes-from-the-open-mobile-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/22\/notes-from-the-open-mobile-exchange","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Open Mobile Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/oscon2008\/public\/schedule\/topic\/Open+Mobile+Exchange\">Open Mobile Exchange<\/a> at OSCON today, so here are a few scraps of notes that I found interesting (from various speakers).<\/p>\n<p>While we do live in the shadow of the iPhone now, this is going to change.<\/p>\n<p>Every person in the modern world uses Linux multiple times EVERY DAY (even if you don&#8217;t know it). Linux is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The AppStore is something that&#8217;s making the iPhone rock. The reason Windows is so popular, is because there are so many applications. This is changing in the open mobile world: think Android, for example.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3.3 billion mobile phones (more than PCs, cars, telephones, credit cards, and TV even).<\/p>\n<p>When Apple sends a million phones in the weekend, its a drop in the ocean when Nokia sells a million phones a day! The iPhone is about usage (German iPhone users use 30 times more data; Google notices 50 times the number of searches from iPhone usage)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User Interface &#8211; Vimeo has a video, &#8220;OpenMoko train wreck&#8221; which compares to why its a FAIL versus the iPhone<\/li>\n<li>Access to Device Characteristics (camera, location, accelerometer, network, security, privacy) &#8211; today you really don&#8217;t get access to this, this needs to happen, really!<\/li>\n<li> Standards<\/li>\n<li> Performance &#8211; Firefox 3 for example, is very performance oriented. Remember, we&#8217;ve become bandwidth gluttons (webpage size has tripled since 2003&#8230; 22 times since 1995!). We&#8217;ve all been spoiled by having high broadband connection&#8230; look at Yahoo!&#8217;s 14 Performance Rules (34 today).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are numerous mobile web browsers, and so little documentation about them today.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging Mobile Open Source for New Wireless Apps and Services<br \/>\nStefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager<br \/>\n(instead of Hal Steger)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Push email, PIM synchronisation<\/li>\n<li> Younger generations are using more than just voice, in mobile &#8211; its SMS, data, chat<\/li>\n<li> Nokia Ovi (http:\/\/www.ovi.com\/) &#8211; Nokia is using this to monetise user generated content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Average American gets 3,000 visual stimulus messages per day. 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