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  • Mobile Web Development Offers Greater ROI Than Apple iPhone Apps

    Mobile Web Developers Miami

    Q: iPhone App, Android App or Mobile Web App?
    A: Accessibility: iPhone Apps: 5% | All Native Mobile Apps combined: 25% | W3CmobileOK Mobile Web Apps: 90%

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    In GeekSpeak, “app” is the cool, short way to say “computer software application”. And in recent years, our web-wired technomarketeers have spared no expense in making “app” a household word. Especially when it comes to “mobile apps” for smartphones–i.e. cell phones with enough computing power to support their own operating system–perhaps most notable among them being Apple “iPhone Apps”. Remove the branding and built-in device restrictions from an iPhone App, however, and it’s just another mobile app. And disregard the fact that its computing platform also makes phone calls, and a mobile app is just another “web app”.

     

    That’s oversimplifying things a bit, but not by much: Despite all the hoopla, a recent Nielsen survey showed that less than 10% (26% of 37%) of U.S. mobile users have access to iPhone apps. And although smartphones are on the increase, over 60% of the U.S. mobile market still uses cell phones that aren’t “smart” enough to support device-specific smartphone apps of any kind. Mobile internet usage continues to rise, however, and Microsoft Tag projects it will exceed desktop internet usage by 2014.

     

    So what’s the smart play for marketing to the Mobile Web? Is an iPhone App really cool if only 1 in 10 of your customers can experience the coolness?

     

    We think not. Our approach to Mobile Web marketing is to extend your Web 3.0 presence so that your message is accessible to all web surfers regardless of their computing device or communications capability–wired or wireless, desktop or tablet computer, smartphone or not. Yes, it may be true that as of 2011 only 27% of the world’s 4 billion cell phones qualify as “smart”. But microbrowsers from pioneers like Openwave have been providing cellphone users with access to the World Wide Web since 1997. Furthermore, many mobile browsers have supported W3C mobileOK XHTML and CSS since 2006. And with the advent of HTML5/CSS3, and a new generation of cross-platform smartphone browsers like Opera Mobile, the question of whether to invest in expensive apps restricted to users of a single branded device when a cross-platform m-commerce alternative like our mCartSB™ mobile commerce mini-cart mashup would make it accessible for all answers itself. As Matos Kapetanakis stated:

     

    “Mobile Web is fast becoming the de-facto cross-platform choice for developers, especially now that [Flash is] waning. In addition, there is a veritable host of HTML-to-native development tools that are helping HTML/JavaScript developers target smartphone native app markets.”

     

    For a free, no-obligation Mobile Web development consultation, call Mobile Web designer Bruce Arnold at 786-838-0851.

     
     
  • Mobile Friendly Web Development Miami Fl :: JoachimDePosada.com

    Mobile Web Development Miami

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    Joachim de Posada, CSP (Motivational Speaker | Keynote/Hispanic/Latino/Bilingual | Inspirational Author): An inspirational professional keynote speaker, bilingual in English and Spanish, and author of many best-selling books like Don’t Eat the Marshmallow … Yet.

     

    Designed with Web 3.0 results in mind by Miami web developer Bruce Arnold, Joachim de Posada’s vibrant, enlightening and mobile-friendly website passes all seven tests of readiness for semantic front-end web development Miami and Web 3.0 design, including WCAG/Section 508 standards compliant and W3C-validated HTML5, CSS3 and Unobtrusive Javascript. Its PHP/MySQL rendered design consequently enjoys high visibility and accessibility across a broad range of PC, Mac, iPad and other tablet computer browsers. A companion W3C mobileOK mobile website enables access via iPhones, Android phones or any other mobile phones with microbrowsers.

     
     
  • Miami Web Design Firm Shares Seven Numbers for Mobile Web Marketers

     
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    According to MobiThinking.com, there are currently 5.3 billion mobile phones in use worldwide. 90% of them have Internet access, and 25% are “smartphones” with enough computing capacity to run their own operating system. Surprisingly for some, however, less than 5% are Apple iPhones. This means that despite all the buzz, iPhone Apps are accessible by only 1 in 20 mobile consumers, and only 1 in 4 can access smartphone mobile apps of any kind. Smartphone or not, on the other hand, “W3C mobileOK” pages and apps are accessible by 9 out of 10 mobile consumers.

     

    As Miami web design firm developer Bruce Arnold observed, “Big companies with big budgets can afford to spend big bucks developing redundant mobile apps for Android OS, Apple OS, Blackberry OS, HP Web OS and so on. But why should they? The principal beneficiaries of platform-specific mobile apps development – which tend to lock users into the platform vendors’ offerings – are the programmers and producers of the operating systems and devices they run on. Using XHTML/CSS or HTML5/CSS3 and standard web development tools like PHP coupled with a cross-platform mobile DDR (device description repository), most if not all of their functionality can be delivered by a single browser-based Mobile Web app. And if it is coded in compliance with the W3C’s ‘keep it simple, keep it small’ mobileOK standards, that single Mobile Web page or app will work not only on all smart phones but also on the vast majority of cell phones that aren’t so smart. That means businesses won’t have to ask customers to buy SmartPhone A or SmartPhone B if they want access to Sales Portal X or Tracking Resource Y. It also means reaching a much larger market for a much lower cost.”