Ryan Joy (atxryan)

"More specifically, today I will shout at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development." – PPK

You're walking down the street. Your phone buzzes, a map or a screen overlay pops up and you're shown a note left in that location by one of your friends – along with an ad for your favorite pizza. Walk into the pizza place and your phone buzzes again – your friends have something to say about the guy behind the counter. That might have sounded far-fetched a few years ago, but it doesn't so much anymore, does it?

"Honestly, what good is a full-web experience when I can only open 10 full websites a month without going over my monthly allowance, and when I have to stare at my screen for 15 minutes before one page completely loads on my snail-speed connection?"

"Software development is hard work. Device integration should be simple so you can focus on the application you are building instead of authoring complex compatibility layers. PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices native functionality with open standards."

The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.

Morgan Stanley predicts that smartphones "will out-ship the global notebook + netbook market in 2010E and out-ship the global PC market (notebook + netbook + desktop) by 2012E."

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.

“If knowledge was available, you should be able to get to it from a phone. At that moment I realized that I had spent most of my adult life working to put a personal computer on every desktop in every home at Microsoft and it occured to me that there was a fundamental shift going [...]

In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same [...]