Yesterday I heard an interesting fact that I thought I’d share. So in 2008 Samsung, LG and a few others shipped 20 million Windows Mobile devices around the world.  80% of these had touch screens instead of standard keypads, and so for development ongoing it’s looking less important to handle devices with keypads.

Saying that, the majority of the installed base of Windows Mobile users from 2006/2007 are still happily using their QWERTY devices like the Samsung BlackJack.  So the net of the story is, the future is touch enabled, but if you want to enable reach over relevance then you’ll need two Flash applications.

The same story will apply to other platforms in the future.