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Windows, Symbian, Android, Apple - what for mobile trading?

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 12, 2010 1:46pm Jul 12, 2010 1:46pm
Windows, Symbian, Android, Apple IOS4.

Who is going to win?

I notice iphone and Android apps popping up. Windows mobile is the only MT4 mini platform at the moment but Google seem to have stolen a march on Apple and Microsoft.

Futurists tell me your view, please.
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  • #2
  • Jul 12, 2010 2:03pm Jul 12, 2010 2:03pm
Symbian is going down, I suggest you short that. There's limited user interface, and minimal if any api for programmers to connect to.

IOS4 is the big dog at the moment. I'm not sure exactly the breadth of products under the iOS moniker (pad, touch, and phone, right?) if that is the case, I expect this platform to overcome symbian with the advent of cheaper devices, and more capable wireless networks (cough ATT Sucks Cough).

Android platform seems to be more of an attempt to take marketshare away from symbian. There is no real iconic phone on the android platform anyway, and consistency of UIs across phones in the same generation will almost certainly limit the apps available to them.

Apple needs to get out of the exclusivity deal with ATT at the very least and have the iPhone available on all major US carriers to try and at the very least reduce the cost of ownership and the problems associated with using their products on heavily saturated wireless networks.
  • #3
  • Jan 6, 2011 6:32am Jan 6, 2011 6:32am
Quoting smikester
Windows, Symbian, Android, Apple IOS4.

Who is going to win?

I notice iphone and Android apps popping up. Windows mobile is the only MT4 mini platform at the moment but Google seem to have stolen a march on Apple and Microsoft.

Futurists tell me your view, please.

My forecast Android will be the most popular, iOS will be the best. Don't understand how but apple programmers and designers know how touch users souls and make them ready to pay any money for their products.
  • #4
  • Jan 6, 2011 7:50am Jan 6, 2011 7:50am
Hi there,

As a developers we rely on iPhone (MT5 will be released soon) and Android (later in this year). WM is dead now and nothing helps him (MT5 is not scheduled on WM), as well as Apple and Google will continue to conquer the market.

Also MT5 may appear on BlackBerry, but we are still in doubt with that platform.
  • #5
  • Jan 6, 2011 11:14am Jan 6, 2011 11:14am
Quoting Fat
Hi there,

As a developers we rely on iPhone (MT5 will be released soon) and Android (later in this year). WM is dead now and nothing helps him (MT5 is not scheduled on WM), as well as Apple and Google will continue to conquer the market.

Also MT5 may appear on BlackBerry, but we are still in doubt with that platform.
Sounds like great news. Android really needs some decent charting platform.
  • #6
  • Jan 10, 2011 10:15am Jan 10, 2011 10:15am
Quoting Fat
Hi there,

As a developers we rely on iPhone (MT5 will be released soon) and Android (later in this year). WM is dead now and nothing helps him (MT5 is not scheduled on WM), as well as Apple and Google will continue to conquer the market.

Also MT5 may appear on BlackBerry, but we are still in doubt with that platform.
Thanks for posting. You confirmed my opinions. I went for Android. Looking forward to MT5. I'll probably still use my laptop but the phone will be handy as a Wifi connection and a trading back up.
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  • #7
  • Jan 13, 2011 12:18pm Jan 13, 2011 12:18pm
is there going to be volume on charts available for mt5 i-phone app?
is it available in mt4?
  • #8
  • Jan 24, 2011 7:58am Jan 24, 2011 7:58am
Quoting Fat
Hi there,

As a developers we rely on iPhone (MT5 will be released soon) and Android (later in this year). WM is dead now and nothing helps him (MT5 is not scheduled on WM), as well as Apple and Google will continue to conquer the market.

Also MT5 may appear on BlackBerry, but we are still in doubt with that platform.
Good news. MT5 for iphone and ipad are already out!
  • #9
  • Jan 24, 2011 10:25am Jan 24, 2011 10:25am
Quoting Avalong
Good news. MT5 for iphone and ipad are already out!
Does this mean that with MT5 for iphone/pad you can download this program and trade ANY MT5 broker (inputting the IP for the broker's server, etc) or does the individual broker have to offer the program with their particular settings?

I am looking into ipad vs android but am holding off because my broker does not offer any of iphone/ipad, android programs. I was also considering remote desktop but would have to have my desk top running while away to make this work. Fine for small trips around town but for a two week business trip or vacation...not so good.

Can you advise?
  • #10
  • Feb 22, 2011 11:23pm Feb 22, 2011 11:23pm
Symbian was a great idea and way ahead of it's time i.e. the mid-1990s.

Nokia, Sony, Motorola, etc. could have done with it what Apple did with IOS but their failure speaks volumes about them as companies.

They had the market to themselves for years.
  • #11
  • Feb 23, 2011 3:21am Feb 23, 2011 3:21am
Quoting FXPumpkin
Symbian was a great idea and way ahead of it's time i.e. the mid-1990s.

Nokia, Sony, Motorola, etc. could have done with it what Apple did with IOS but their failure speaks volumes about them as companies.

They had the market to themselves for years.
Symbian is history. Nokia and Microsoft will start working together soon. Apple is the best one ever!

Don't know what does google brand managers, but I don't have the same good feeling to Google as company and there products, as I have to Apple!
  • #12
  • Feb 23, 2011 3:58pm Feb 23, 2011 3:58pm
I did say that Symbian was history.

That doesn't mean it wasn't ahead of it's time in the mid-90s. It was light years ahead of Windows mobile, the only real competitor back then.

If Nokia, Motorola, Sony, etc. had developed it properly they would have had 10 years development lead over Apple and Google. They chose not to develop it properly and so it will die out. It's a shame.

The company that originally developed Symbian was Psion. They had products akin to Netbooks in the 90s. In fact they basically came out with a machine which shares a lot of its vision with the Macbook Air. Proprietary non-Windows operating system, no DVD drive, lightweight, runs standard Microsoft Office like apps well, colour screen, etc.

It's interesting that Psion's heyday was the mid-90s around the time that Steve Jobs went back to Apple. Interesting to note the fortunes of the two companies from that time to now. Back then Apple even dropped it's mobile Newton device.

Psion was ahead of the pack, had vision in areas of lightweight computers and mobile operating systems but it was Apple which has reaped the rewards from that market.
  • #13
  • Feb 24, 2011 2:49am Feb 24, 2011 2:49am
generally speaking, i think android and ios are probably on par with each other. symbian is absolutely dead, even nokia ditched it.
windows mobile - that's the joker. nokia ditched symbian in favor of windows mobile, and they still have the largest market share in terms of hardware sales, putting windows mobile 7 in a pretty good position in the next few years.

but, you never know )

right now it's all about android and ios4, and judging by the rate at which we switch phones, you can't go wrong with either and just switch to a windows phone if it ever hits critical mass.

JJ
  • #14
  • Mar 10, 2011 2:54am Mar 10, 2011 2:54am
Guys you've got a point.. But I don't think that Symbian is dead as of now... There are still 150 million symbian based devices to be shipped, which is double the number of devices in the market at present.... So it isn't dead yet.. What I think its just another platform that Nokia is adding to their OS family... See what 3rd party developers have to say about this:
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  • #15
  • Mar 10, 2011 6:14am Mar 10, 2011 6:14am
While I'm a HUGE Android fan, I would say iOS is a lot more secure, especially when you're talking about financial transactions that can reveal information about you, your accounts or your finances. Android is much more open but less secure, while iOS is much more closed but a lot more secure. Kind of a trade-off.
  • #16
  • Last Post: Apr 20, 2011 11:07am Apr 20, 2011 11:07am
Quoting FXPumpkin
Psion was ahead of the pack, had vision in areas of lightweight computers and mobile operating systems but it was Apple which has reaped the rewards from that market.
You forgot to mention Palm. Fantastic operating system for mobiles and lots of loyal users. But the build quality of the machines let them down constantly and towards the end caused the demise of Palm altogether.

Apple, with the iphone, scooped up most of the Palm gadget users, on the back of the mobile phone operators' leasing schemes, allowing a relatively expensive device to become affordable. And rightly so. As I understand it the iphone is highly reliable and if we are keeping contact and details and for business use this is what we need.
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