Toronto: mobile app centre of the universe
Toronto is on its way to becoming the continent’s mecca of mobile phone apps, the Wall Street Journal reports. There are around 200 up-and-coming app companies in the GTA—a number that keeps increasing. Toronto’s app stature can be credited to many things, according to the article, but primary among them are generous government grant schemes, world-class computer science and design programs, and a proliferation of RIM jobs employment positions at Research in Motion.
Young techies who broke into the industry by working for the BlackBerry maker are finding Toronto to be fertile ground for their ambitions. Some notable Toronto examples include Endloop Studios (creator of the iMockups iPad) and Simply Good Technologies, whose image-recognition software made our list of 25 ideas that are changing the world.
It’s good to know that Toronto is getting recognized for something other than being what the Journal describes as “conservative, cold, [and] conventional.” Excuse us, Rupert Murdoch, but Toronto is awesome. Just ask these losers.
• Toronto becoming hub for mobile apps companies [Wall Street Journal]
I’m looking for a rim job as well.
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Article sounds great, but Ontario is actually slipping behind in wireless revolution. Too few mobile phone users, overly expensive data rates, and lack of access to capital, distribution and markets are holding Ontario back in one of the only sectors poised for growth in the current recession, says a new white paper released today by the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC). Download the report here: http://www.meic.ocad.ca/index.htm
Regards,
Marc-Oliver . Mobile Experience Design
I would have to agree with Marc in that Toronto and even more broad, all of Canada is lacking behind in having a solid wireless data infrastructure, but there is certainly a hot bed of activity in terms of new developers popping up in Toronto. What will be more interesting is how developers find their niche in the industry and more specifically how they make their mark in the so called “App Mecca of the world”
Cheers,
Joshua | Tap-Ula Rasa – Mobile Applications