>Hi Mike,
>
>>Only a fool could miss the gains of tablets and smartphones in the market. For a while they were regarded as toys, the same as PCs originally were. That said, Windows is still the environment. The rest are still only players.
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>currently, yes. But look at the speed Symbiam tanked here or blackberry in the US.
>Budgets are split to accomodate phone/pad - dev on pure desktop is down a lot.
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>I am pretty sure not to enter the 3.99$ app dev crowd...
>
>regards
>
>thomas

The Blackberry had an interesting history. Five years ago it owned the smartphone market. The word "crackberry" was dubbed the word of the year. Then so fast it made your head spin the iPhone knocked it off the grid. A lesson for all of us.

3.99 times a million is still a lot ;-)