Mobile photo and video publishing: step 2
Good day friends and colleagues. I want to start my first post in the company's corporate blog with a question to an audience that cares about our very small crowd of mobile web-technology enthusiasts: which platform to start developing a mobile client for multiposting photos and videos?
It is obvious that mobile publishing of photos via sending MMS is a very simple and familiar way of interacting with the WEB, the main advantage of which is its availability on most mobile phones. However, these same “mobile phones” are getting smaller every year, and communicators, smartphones, tablets - more and more, and the devices themselves - cheaper. I am sure that some of the guys who became the first users of the service “MMS-posting VKontakte”, which started exactly a year ago, have already changed their mobile phones to much more modern and interesting devices based on Android, iOS, Symbian, and, of course, some of them preferred use more convenient and functional applications that cover the same needs.
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That is why we started designing our own application for mobile platforms, which solves the problem of mobile publishing of photos and videos in a wide range of popular web projects. A convenient, lightweight application that saves mobile Internet traffic of users and allows you to customize and implement publication in several projects with one click - should be the next step of our development. But, as I wrote above, we are a fairly limited team in resources. And now, when the application specification is almost finished, all user cases are described and drawn in mocaps, the question arises - which platform to start from?
In search of an answer, we turned to statistics: 37% of smartphones and communicators in the world are Symbian. This is the largest share and the most obvious way to reach the largest user segment. But, on the other hand, this share has been falling for several quarters in a row, and considering the joint plans of Nokia and Microsoft, the trend will not change.
Windows Phone itself does not yet have a significant market share and, in general, is not interesting for the start of such development. Among the remaining platforms, Android looks preferable to iOS in terms of growth and market share, although in our team, iOS quantitatively beats Android at 60/40 =).
For today, we fluctuate between Symbian and Android with a small margin in favor of the latter. The decision must be made before April 1 (the day the project starts). We want to hear the informed opinions of the community and are grateful for them in advance.
It is obvious that mobile publishing of photos via sending MMS is a very simple and familiar way of interacting with the WEB, the main advantage of which is its availability on most mobile phones. However, these same “mobile phones” are getting smaller every year, and communicators, smartphones, tablets - more and more, and the devices themselves - cheaper. I am sure that some of the guys who became the first users of the service “MMS-posting VKontakte”, which started exactly a year ago, have already changed their mobile phones to much more modern and interesting devices based on Android, iOS, Symbian, and, of course, some of them preferred use more convenient and functional applications that cover the same needs.
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That is why we started designing our own application for mobile platforms, which solves the problem of mobile publishing of photos and videos in a wide range of popular web projects. A convenient, lightweight application that saves mobile Internet traffic of users and allows you to customize and implement publication in several projects with one click - should be the next step of our development. But, as I wrote above, we are a fairly limited team in resources. And now, when the application specification is almost finished, all user cases are described and drawn in mocaps, the question arises - which platform to start from?
In search of an answer, we turned to statistics: 37% of smartphones and communicators in the world are Symbian. This is the largest share and the most obvious way to reach the largest user segment. But, on the other hand, this share has been falling for several quarters in a row, and considering the joint plans of Nokia and Microsoft, the trend will not change.
Windows Phone itself does not yet have a significant market share and, in general, is not interesting for the start of such development. Among the remaining platforms, Android looks preferable to iOS in terms of growth and market share, although in our team, iOS quantitatively beats Android at 60/40 =).
For today, we fluctuate between Symbian and Android with a small margin in favor of the latter. The decision must be made before April 1 (the day the project starts). We want to hear the informed opinions of the community and are grateful for them in advance.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/115929/
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