Well, OK, maybe not everyone in retail, but there have been a few notable developments in the past week or so.

Argos is about to release an iPhone app as increasing numbers of consumers use Apple mobile devices to access its website. Marks and Spencer has sidestepped the app route and launched a mobile version of its website. Lyle & Scott has done the same. The luxury clothing outfit’s site went live on 23 April. It reports that visitor numbers more than doubled in the first week of launch, with figures remaining strong into May.

After a shaky start, m-commerce is really picking up speed in the retail sector. No great surprise there. Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17 per cent increase from the same period in 2009, according to figures recently issued by Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7 per cent from the first quarter of 2009.

“In the first quarter of 2010, smartphone sales to end users saw their strongest year-on-year increase since 2006. This quarter saw RIM, a pure smartphone player, make its debut in the top five mobile devices manufacturers, and saw Apple increase its market share by 1.2 percentage points. Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707 per cent year-on-year,” says Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner.

And the pace is unlikely to let up during the second quarter of 2010 with, amongst other things, Apple expected to present its new iPhone in June during its Worldwide Developer Conference.

So, with all that in mind, who will next ’see the light’ and follow Marks and Spencer’s lead with a mobile commerce site?