Apple fans and Mac-heads now have a big reason to travel to Spain every February: MacWorld Mobile will be a part of Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile show. It’s the closest Apple is going to get as far as being part of a huge trade show since it has almost no presence at MWC or CES. MacWorld Mobile will be focusing on developers and the future of apps and app development.
Since iOS devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, are increasing in popularity, market share and usage, it only makes sense that MWC includes an event dedicated to the Apple operating system.
According to Reuters:
The success of Apple’s iPhone and its iPad tablet computer has much to do with the enthusiasm of software developers to produce hundreds of thousands of apps that consumers can buy through Apple’s online store to customize their devices.
With the huge number of iOS devices shipped, and over 230,000 activations per day, MacWorld Mobile should prove to be an informative and rich environment for Apple developers all over the world.
But Apple developers won’t be the only ones getting all the attention at MWC next year:
The GSM Association, which runs MWC, also said on Tuesday that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard’s Palm would be its partners for this year’s App Planet developer event, which is part of MWC.
As application markets and usage continue to soar, next year’s Mobile World Congress will definitely be a more interesting event with a big focus on development and not just devices.
[Via: Reuters]