Making sense of Mobile Development Platforms  Mobile development
platforms are so hot right now that even video ad networks want
to launch one. “App cloud” is to 2012 what “pet food” was to
1998.   Firstly, mobile app development is exploding – Gartner
said app store revenue would reach $15Bn in 2011 – because
consumer attention on mobile devices is shifting to apps, away
from the web.  But mobile app development is hard because you
need to know all sorts of different languages: Objective-C for
iPhone / iPad, Java for Android. And any serious app needs a
remote data-store so you get into the business of provisioning
servers and write Ruby, PHP or Python.  So mobile apps are a big
deal, but technically complex. That’s why development platforms
are springing up to help developers build them. But how can we
make sense of them all? Here’s one attempt:  Mobile Development
Platforms, made unnecessarily complex  Kudos to Kinvey and RWW
for making this attempt and this graphic does in fact contain
all the top mobile