Five User Experience Trends I'll be Watching in 2010 / nForm / Blog

Five User Experience Trends I'll be Watching in 2010 / nForm / Blog: "For companies that are developing mobile business apps there are three options:

lock your users into a mobile platform like the iPhone or Blackberry
build separate apps for each platform
build apps in platform-neutral way using the mobile web
I'm betting on option three. The growth in the smartphone market, the new expectations people have for mobile information access, and the diversity of platforms--all of these forces will create a perfect storm for mobile web apps. Here's why:

the web will be on every phone
nobody has to approve a web application
HTML5 will make much richer in-browser experiences possible
the web is a better platform for developing and deploying software
mobile browsers will start to gain access to handset hardware (like Safari has access to the iPhone's GPS)"