We(I and Dr. Kiran Mudiam) just finished our presentation on Challenges in Mobile development - A Java developer's prospective at PhxJUG. Wow! what a response. The meeting is crowded with lots of new comers and interesting to see so many mobile enthusiasts in the valley. I gave many presentations, but this time I got more engaged with the audience. Could be the topic which is appealing or it could be the Kiran who is part of the presentation, but we got connected to the attendees. Post the meeting at Auntchiladas(Mexican restaurant where we usually hang around after the meeting), I found out that there is a lot of interest in mobile development. I found out from one of the attendee that even Health care(most of it is not computerized in US) is jumping onto the Mobile aggressively. Another attendee who is building the real time trading application wants to take his app to mobile. That's fascinating. Thanks to the iPhone which made smart phones much smarter with the much easy navigation and real web browsing. Sure the smart phones are getting much processing power and more memory, which is leading lot of companies to think about taking their businesses to the mobile.
For developers, it's a big opportunity - in terms of Jobs and in terms of revenue for freelance developers. The opportunity is huge and if you want to be part of it - it's time to update your skill set.
It's surprising to see so much focus on mobile development in the desert city. It's not just Java ME developers - valley has iPhone developers user group and Android developers users group who meets once in a month. Which is why I say Phoenix is also the one of the happening place. Otherwise how come valley has number of enthusiasts who is catching up with latest technologies?
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