After having interviewed Jan Slodicka in part one of the Developer Health Survey 2008, it’s now time to talk with Mobile-Stream!
Please tell us more about yourself and your company!
We are a small independent developer for mobile platforms.
Here are the most popular Palm applications created by Mobile Stream.
Card Reader allows you to use your Palm as a USB card reader and to exchange files via Bluetooth.
The unique feature is the ability to work in background mode.
USB Modem allows you to use your Palm or Windows Mobile device as a Bluetooth or USB modem for your notebook or desktop computer.
Landscape utility is the only utility which adds a landscape mode to Sony CLIE TH/NZ/NZ and Garmin iQue 3600. The Portrait version of this utility adds a portrait mode to Sony CLIE UX devices. Rotation utility allows you to flip screen orientation on 320×320 Palm devices.
Our unofficial PalmOS SDK will help you to easily create multitasking applications for Palm.
We have also several Palm OS games.
Did the resuscitation of PalmGear affect your sales?
Only to a small extent. Though we hope it will be much better in the nearest future.
Do you feel the effects of the American sub-prime crisis?
As far as our sales numbers are concerned, no.
But we do have some difficulties with some online resellers who stop or considerably delay royalty payments to the developers.
In General, are you (still) happy with the sales rates of your Palm OS products?
Yes, we are. And I mean not only our Palm utilities like Card Reader or USB Modem.
Even our games sell today more Palm versions than, say, Windows Mobile versions. It is a very interesting Palm phenomenon: while Windows Mobile ships millions and millions of devices, our software sales for those platforms are inferior to Palm ports.
Symbian sales are almost equal to Palm sales in our case (here I am talking about games, as we do not have yet Symbian utilities), but there are much, much more Symbian smartphones in the market than Palm devices.
Did the fast-selling Centro affect your sales?
Yes. As I already mentioned while answering the previous question, 2 mln Centro smartphones sell more software for us than millions of Windows Mobile devices.
How long do you expect to stay in the Palm OS market?
Forever.
So far we do not see negative trends with our existing software.
Do you plan any new Palm OS products?
So far no. But we actively support our current Palm OS software by releasing updates when necessary.
Do you see any future for Nova?
It is too early to make any forecasts.
What is your future platform of choice?
We try to remain multi-platform. Now we are investigating Android.
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