At what industry event are you going to see a product manager for Groupon chatting it up with a VP from SAP? Well, if you were one of the lucky attendees at last week's #GenMobile party this is just one of many unlikely pairings you would have witnessed. 

As far as mobile development goes we truly see it all at Appcelerator, and one thing we have is an insider’s view into how different and fragmented mobile OSes are - in particular Android. 

There’s a reason for this. 

In explosive and relatively nascent markets, such as mobile apps, smartphones, and tablets, you often get widespread fragmentation as vendors ‘pile on’, grabbing for market share where they can get it. It’s an order of magnitude (or three!) more complex with Android. Here’s what it looks like to develop and QA for Android. 

A couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend and I headed to our favorite movie theater in San Francisco to see The Avengers. She didn't have any real expecatations going in, but I was very skeptical that it would be a good movie, in spite of all the great reviews it was garnering.