Gartner's top 10 technologies include the cloud, mobile apps

"10) Mobile Applications. By year-end 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing a rich environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web. There are already many thousands of applications for platforms such as the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market and need for unique coding. It may take a newer version that is designed to flexibly operate on both full PC and miniature systems, but if the operating system interface and processor architecture were identical, that enabling factor would create a huge turn upwards in mobile application availability."

Comments have ranged from "Mobile apps on the bottom of Gartner's top 10 list" and "Mobile apps going out of fashion" to "Mobile apps the next big thing". To our knowledge this is the first time Mobile applications have made it onto the list and the amount of attention mobile apps are getting this year despite only being used by about 5% of the population in Europe and US is amazing. Imagine what will happen when it hits 25%!

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