I am planning to get a new phone later this month since I have moved to a new country and my old phone is causing me difficulties. I see there are good deals on Samsung (Android) and iPhones (IOS). My issue is I want to run notebook applications locally on my phone. So if I create a program that does something useful and I want to use it on the go then I want to run it locally on my mobile.

So my question is which device is more preferable for this usage. I see there are two types of applications on mobile devices being published by a company named Wolfram Group LLC, Wolfram Cloud and Wolfram Player. I am assuming the Wolfram Cloud app will not run the notebook application on the local mobile hardware so would be pretty slow and not feasible for computationally intensive applications.

So if anyone that has been using these apps on their devices, please share their experience on which phone to get. Also, I see that the Wolfram Player app is not available on the Google Play Store. Maybe there are some other Android stores where I can get the Wolfram Player app?

Finally, I am a long term windows user so I don't know much about how Samsung vs iPhone will behave in terms of connectivity with windows.

Also, please somebody explain if Wolfram Player can run notebook application directly then what is the purpose of CDF vs NB?

I asked this question in the Wolfram Blog; I got a reply there:

You will not need to purchase the in-app purchase to pan or zoom 3D objects. EnterpriseCDF documents also require no in-app purchase to make work. As for having an iPad demo the app, we’re certainly hopeful!

I'm hoping teachers understand: it would be tremendous for a student to create a CDF and then be able to see it run on an iPad. It ignites imaginations to write the code and then see it come to life. The CDF player is one man's (and his company's) vision for visualization. Authoring the code in the Wolfram Cloud or on some PC (including Raspberry Pi) is a tad convoluted, but kids should pick up that fire drill quickly. It's all just part of the game.

I'll have conversations in my circles to ask about getting this app in the Apple Retail Store's demo load. This should not be too hard; it is a Win-Win for both companies to have world-class software running on these sales floor machines. A pie-in-the-sky idea would be for store's Creatives to have presentations walking kids through the steps to author and deploy CDFs. We cold make this happen!

Not sure, but the network functions are pretty edgy (hey, you asked...)

Maybe they realized how <expletive> difficult it was to create?