http://wap.mobiblogi.com Mobiblogi is innovative mobile community where you can get useful advice on mobile marketing, independent analysis and practical tips. english Veiko Herne (2007/2008) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:19 http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Apple-iPad-is-totally-overpriced.html Apple-iPad-is-totally-overpriced Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:19 In 2004 I purchased myself Dell Axim X30 for less than 200 pounds in UK. This had SD slot, USB cable and multitasking. Nowadays this device costs less than 50 pounds. It's still good for music, plays MPEG videos, to read PDF documents and had Excel and Word with it. It had WiFi and Bluetooth. Opera Browser worked fine with it allowing a much better web experience than Microsoft IE. I'm somehow surprised that Apple thinks someone will buy their new iPad for $500? For $995 you can get a decent MacBook which can be used as professional music recording studio or professional video editing suite. Why someone pays half of the price of professional equipment to read eBooks? apple ipad http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Advertisement-based-business-model-does-not-make-any-money-for-software-developers-.html Advertisement-based-business-model-does-not-make-any-money-for-software-developers- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:32:29 AdMob recently announced their statistics that 54% of iPhone applications have showed less than one thousand ads and only 1% have showed over 1M ads. At mobile ads click thru percentages are normal (mine has been around 6%) compared to Google Adsense (lower than 1%). And now Google is trying to get to the market with gPhone. Besides being a technical fiasco, it could be financial disaster for developers as advertisement based business model makes profits for Google but not to developers. And who would use Adsense for mobiles where Google has been taken 80% commission where AdMob only takes 30%? But the bottom line is that no-one bothers to click on those Adsense ads. Google does not have interesting advertisers there. software iphone gphone admob adsense http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Google-gPhone-2D-engine-sucks.html Google-gPhone-2D-engine-sucks Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:48:42 There was lot of hope to get SVG work on Google Android. Google has been pioneering SVG technology and Google Maps are using it so the obvious would have been that SVG will be included to gPhone. But to everyone's surprise WebKit SVG drivers was left out when compiling Android browser. SVG community first reaction was that it's some kind of strategic statement from Google to abandon SVG technology which afterwards changed to idea that probably WebKit SVG drivers where too heavy (500K) to package with gPhone. So community help was offered to optimise the code and put those to 200K. But then the truth comes out. Android 2D library isn't capable to run comlex SVG algorithms. But what then we can do with gPhone? If maps and GPRS software does not work with it and we can't build or port proper games, who will buy such kind of device. To use it for information search only there are much better devices available. I think the gPhone will be a fiasco for Google google gphone android mobile http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-persons-who-really-need-a-mobile-broadband-cannot-get-it.html Why-persons-who-really-need-a-mobile-broadband-cannot-get-it Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:48:15 My first tries to get mobile broadband in France was a fiasco. I just took my Vodaphone dongle with me and hoped to connect it to local SFR (Vodaphone) network. First they demanded that I must have permanent address in France and a French bank account!!! What the use of me to have French bank account if there wont be any money coming to it and if I will have a permanent address, why I need to pay so much extra just not having simple ADSL connection there? I can get cash out from every ATM and pay on every supermarket with my Visa card. Why suddenly I cant do it in the mobile shop? And finally when we find out that the place where we lived didnt had even simple GPRS connections not talking about 3G, so I just went to Spain where mobile world is much more developed. They even have mobile world congress here in Barclelona. But here we have exactly same problem getting mobile broadband. As I stay with Kate on her boat, we cant get ADSL line to the boat so mobile broadband is the only solution getting Internet at the sea. However, Telefonica refused to sell it to us? I may not be authorised without a local adress, but Kate having lived in Spain over four years, previous customer to Telefonica with local bank account and tax obligations must have been an authorised customer? How the person who sells the apartment to live more convenient way in the sailing boat suddenly is refused to use telecommunication services? And you do not need a mobile broadband if you are not living a mobile lifestyle!!! How those companies do not understand it!!! Are they really thinking that people are willing to pay five times more to get limited Internet access just that its new "cool" thing to have? mobile broadband telefonica vodaphone SFR http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/My-Birthday-bring-storms-to-Barcelona.html My-Birthday-bring-storms-to-Barcelona Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:45:52 There was another birthday for me at 23rd of January. I was assuming getting something 43 or 44, because the last one remembered was my 40sh but seems that I got 45? At least my daughter remembered it and another person, whom I gave shelter in Belfast. Sure, I got very much automated greetings but that's it. But the storm comes this day as my birthday present. half of the trees in the park, where I slept went down so I took a shelter in small bank ATM box. Those places has become usual for homeless guys to sleep, but I had more loved to be outside. I have my sleeping bag, those guys does not have such kind of luxury. Anyway, you will get a job there like a doorkeeper, letting persons in and out. And somebody will give you a euro or so by doing it. Anyway, the storm quieted even cold wind is still blowing and I have continued my usual daily routines. Barcelona Weather Birthday http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Why-I-should-wrote-the-iPHone-HTML-editor-component.html Why-I-should-wrote-the-iPHone-HTML-editor-component Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:48:47 There is one important component missing in mobile world. Its simple HTML editor which instead of saving the content, should post it back to server. In the Web world you just take some open source Java applet but there is nothing yet in mobile world. Don’t try to tell me that there is no need for such kind of thing as Wordpress already has a iPhone application. Besides mobile blogging, this component will be necessary to setup any successful online business models like classified ads, forums, social networking and dating, etc. Having first Z80 processor based computer in my hand, the simple text editor was the first thing I wrote to it. And it didn’t take me years to write it like today’s software companies are doing. As far I remember it was some week work. As there wasn’t any HTML standards on those days, I developed a similar file format but instead of “” characters separating tags, I was using brackets []. Getting some sample how to use recursive calls, I also wrote mathematical formula calculations to it using [=2*(5+7)] format for example. This simple editor should include H1-H3,B,I,U,A and IMG tags as minimum, maybe LI/LO. But I need some financial help to start to write it as I do not have even money to buy iPhone. My plan was it to be ready by Barcelona conference to be sold and license it there but as I haven’t found anyone interested to finance the development even offering it 50/50 basis. Practically my needs are: iPhone iPhone developers fee My Laptop fixed and upgraded or new laptop which maybe costs less selling here for around 250 Euros. A roof to my head with Internet access as I cant write a program living in the street. Why investors are so stupid willing to invest either hundreds of thousands pounds or telling me that there are no market for missing component? iPhone HTML editor http://wap.mobiblogi.com/articles/Resetting-MobiBlogi.html Resetting-MobiBlogi Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:37:40 The MobiBlogi has been now online nearly a year and following where the most interesting developments in 2008: 1. Mobile Search haven't yet been viable as Google when Google finally indexed my mobile sitemap, its sending me web visitors rather than mobile ones. 2. Google, Apple and Nokia went to WebKit instead Opera and mobile browser development went back at least five years. Opera is still only one in mobile world supporting XSLT, SVG and events so we could write even games to play in mobile browser. 3. Motorola and Sony Ericsson closed down the UIQ development, the only advance mobile UI we had so far even it was slow in my SE M600i. 4. Mobile wapmasters community is rising having new ideas in development and those persons not asking anymore VC money to make simple things happen. 5. Mobile Operators and Bloglines working on stupidity to reformat Internet sites rather than using wap sites. 6. Everyone wants backlink to their site but Technorati automated verification didnt worked out for example. 7. Orange is starting to rob in in the store not even waiting to get you as customer!!! 8. I never got little bit money to develop some iPhone applications so went to Spain, with the destination of Palestine in my mind. 9. No one besides me didnt wanted to post on this blog even getting 3-5 visitors per day. So, what new now: 1. To get rid of AdModa and install MobPartner network ads as AdModa didnt had any ads to sell!!! They just vanished. 2. Bango analytics are installed to the site 3. The comment verification is in place as somehow this blog comments got abused by robots wanting sex related links here? Meanwhile just blogging my life (link below) using now public libraries as my mobile phone was robbed. mobile community blogging