Twitter to become SMS replacement?

June 2nd, 2009

I have a theory about Twitter and the iPhone in that once Apple’s push service is released (presumably with 3.0) it will pave the way for things like a Twitter client which informs you of new tweets in much the same way that the iPhone itself does with SMS messages. Therefore I can see the future being that iPhone users will increase their tweeting even more, thus not having to use SMS which has 2 advantages. One is that Twitter is free, and two is that if you happen to be on your PC rather than have your phone in front of you then you can receive messages or send messages using your favourite desktop Twitter client.

The problem comes of course that you still have to have polling in there somewhere because Twitter don’t have a push notification themselves, but perhaps Twitter will try to cash in and create their own iPhone app and add Apple’s push service to their own backend service.

Who knows…

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Exciting time ahead for mobile computing?

June 1st, 2009

This weekend has been surprising for me. Firstly, it has seen the start of some contract iPhone application work which I managed to pick up. Secondly, I have been contacted about joining with a couple of people to start looking into the market potential for mobile applications. And thirdly, I have been contacted asking if I’d like to apply for a job developing mobile applications.

All of these points have made me realise just how big the market is for mobile applications, and just how much of a growth area it is likely to be over the coming months / years. It’s very exciting and I am looking forward to being part of such an exciting industry. I’ll try to keep blogging about things I find out and hopefully others can learn from my thoughts or just enjoy reading what I am finding out.

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