Side to the open-source tool chain we wrote in a preview article, big player like Intel or Microsoft are developing their own proprietary development suite. Intel XDK is an all-in-one solution for mobile apps forged with web technologies.
Creative
Mozilla fondation has released a new OS for tablet and smartphone, the Firefox OS. Entirely based on web technologies and HTML5, the OS is made by the web for the web.
PhoneGap is great but setting up a cross-platform environment for every project might be a waste of time especially for fast prototyping an App. Then Adobe recently opened its Edge Suite which include a cloud based service for smartphone App.
Clouds
PCのUIといえばキーボードとマウス、ゲームならコントローラという定説もタブレットやスマホの台頭でくずれましたね。そしてそのおかげでユーザー対象者も使い道もぐっと広がりました。例えばスマホをUIにしてみたらどうでしょう。