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Bold predictions ran amok in this week’s mobile headlines: from brain-computer interfaces, to Google Glass being chastised for “dorkiness”, to Blackberry’s CEO claiming the death of the tablet (for the record, we think he’s wrong).
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This week IDC announced that smartphones outnumbered feature phones in worldwide shipments: a true turning point for the mobile industry. Plus, Apple’s WWDC sold out in under 2 minutes. What are iOS developers most excited for this year?
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The wearable market continues to dominate tech news and consumer interest. This week, we dive deeper into the bewildering smartwatch market, and learn more about Google Glass. Plus: whose responsibility is mobile?
(Comment by Amcr: I don’t agree with Gartner on this one. Yes hybrid is handy, and yes it makes for a single code base to work with however like a digital recording versus an analog one, native is best. There is a gap in the functionality, flow and performence of hybrid apps. You often need to use all kinds of silly frameworks in order to have some of the cool elements that are present in a native application. The bottom line is this. If you dont have two piles of cash to spend on native apps (one pile for IOS and one pile for android) than a hybrid application is the choice. If on the other hand, you have the cash, and want performence then native is the way to go. The outside of your budget, the next major variable that will determine which route is best for your app is function. What does your app do? Is it a simple information consumption app? Lots of query’s, list views and general business logic sort of stuff? If so then yes hybrid might be a good choice. BUT!! If you are looking to push the boundaries of what a user interface can be or how data might be transformed, then native is place to be.)
Facebook unveiled “Facebook Home” this week, along with special Android-powered HTC smartphones. WIll the social network will change the face of mobile, or is this merely a gimmick? Plus: why some analysts think Microsoft may succeed in the mobile enterprise.
At times working in a dev shop can be a truely fun and magical experience. Being surrounded by so many others who thrive on technology can be so rewarding and fun.
So to all dev shops big and small…. Wheres your Harlem Shake!
Today we mourn the loss of a great champion of open information, Aaron Swartz. Co-founder of Reddit, Co-creator of the RSS 1.0 standard, digital activist, and author of the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto.
Everyday billions of people have him to thank for the news they receive. We all owe him a HUGE debt of gratitude for the work he did in preventing the SOPA monstrosity from becoming law.
On this day my small voice screams for a moment of silence to be observed in ALL RSS feeds for at least 10 mins with the only feed being: “Thank you Aaron you shall be missed and not forgotten.”.
For those that don’t know what the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto is I suggest you read it. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cefxMVAy
There is so much more to be written but it would be impossible for me to do so and not get on my SOPA box (pun fully intended) and this is not the time nor the place to do so.
My hope is that you will read this post, search for the truth, read the stories (via RSS feeds) and hopefully the outrage you will feel will drive you to act for the greater good like Aaron did.
January 1st was the 30th anniversary of the modern internet. The 1st marked the cut over to TCP/IP.
Where computers had a giant impact on the way we do our work and what not TCP/IP has had and continues to have an even greater impact. Prior to TCP/IP all things were proprietary. Sharing and sending information between the various networks was all but impossible. TCP/IP changed all of that paving the way for what we have today.
It has been the underlying tidal force of my entire career. Computers may have been the vehicle but without TCP/IP there is no where to go, stuck on an Island trapped in a silo. TCP/IP Changed all of that. Computers in their current forms and iterations are nothing like what they were 30 years ago (ok sans a keyboard and yes we still have command prompts.). TCP/IP on the other hand is the same for the most part. Even with the addition of IPv6 its still the same at its core, just has more segments its still TCP/IP. One could argue the same thing about computers that at their core they are still the same too, but to that I say “Shush! this is TCP/IP’s day not yours 8086”.
Take a moment, sit back look at all the devices around you. Every news feed alert, IM message, each dungeon run or quest you complete (Fellow Warcraft players, im looking at you), all Netflix movies you watch on a smart TV and wall you post to would not be what it is today with out the pioneering work of Vint Cerf in 1973, Robert Kahn in the 1970’s, Jon Postel.
There are many other very smart and creative people that provided frameworks to make these things happen but the creation of TCP/IP was the road which they all had to navigate.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MODERN INTERNET…..and
Thanks for one heck of a ride so far. {Tip of the hat and toast of the Red Bull to ya TCP/IP}
