Trustwave security experts test many mobile applications every year, usually fitting into one of two categories: free merchant or service-provider applications targeting consumer users (mobile banking applications, grocery store applications, etc.) and applications used by brick-and- mortar merchants for roving sales clerks.
"Using a hybrid design will allow new applications for consumer devices that previously were unavailable, because it would have required a much higher-performance RISC processor, " Pelavin said.