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So far the mobile audience has been shaken by a range of quite scandalous revelations as well as legal suits or at least their promises. It seems that mobile companies and all those even marginally involved in mobile development or mobile manufacturing strive to add their share. IT has always been quite a speedy developing market. So a way from a small back room or a garage to becoming mighty moguls that dictate their laws to the market and to the government has been quite fast. And the competition field is becoming too narrow. To woo customers turns out to be not an easy task. This causes another decision - weaken your competitors.

The warning trend is that huge empires are being built, they rend to encompass all stages from the very beginning to the delivery of a ready-made smartphone to a user. The partnership of Nokia and Intel is of that nature. There are some evidences that Apple purchased privately held chip designer Intrinsity in order to deliver iPad's fast A4 processor. Thus enlarging its technological strength that the company already had on the chip level - PA Semi, a once leading company in manufacturing PWRficient processors.

Palm Inc is up for sale due to its spectacularly poor earnings results that made its shares plunge heavily. It can be named one of the victims of the competition war, being unable to lure more customers and losing its market share to Blackberry and iPhone.

The core benefit of the company its webOS, that on default supports multitasking, needs a good hardware device to match it. After the HTC denial to continue the take-over talks and deliver its own splendid device solutions for a prime-class mobile software, the company can be acquired by Chinese Lenovo which desperately strives to squeeze into the smartphone market.

Such a surge of consolidation can be a good point for consumers as ensures the quality of the product without splitting the responsibility at a range of mediators: chip producers, OS producers, hardware manufacturers, assemblers, etc. From the other point all that makes the market itself a really overcrowded place with a number of big players, crowds of peripheral backyarders, and quite a few medium companies striving to survive.

What's more such market moves can not in the least hurt numerous crowds of iPhone developers or Android developers, or Blackberry developers. Quite often these are the same companies providing all of the above services somewhere from India, post-Soviet States, or African continent. For them it is just a chance to develop personal skills of their staff, earn money for themselves and create a Silicon Valley image for their country.

People should worry more when any of the big players start to dictate their own conditions of developing applications, of using their handsets etc. And it seems that it's what happens now with the latest release of Apple instructions containing certain limitations for the application development process.