…dilemma. RIM felt that letting BBM out in the open would make it easier for Blackberry users to leave. So they kept it proprietary. For way too long. Now they no longer have a dominant smartphone franchise or a dominant mobile messenger franchise.
When Big Data ecosystems start merging it's not the end of the world, but building a different world: Amex to tap big data ( TripAdvisor) to expose fake review s.
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Wow — Karen Geier is killing it on Twitter with her " Thorsten Tips", a bunch of silly predictions inspired by Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins' crazy predictions that in five years, no one will care about tablets and that Blackberry will be the undisputed leader in mobile tech . They're tagged with # ThorstenTip s, and you should get in on the fun!
I've posted some of my favourites below:
…such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model." And yes, if you're going solely by BlackBerry's disastrous experience with the Playbook, then yes. However, with Apple and Samsung tying up the supply chains, Apple selling the iPad mini at lower-than-usual margins and Amazon selling Kindle devices at a loss , a new entrant in the tablet market would either have to have a killer price or killer features. BlackBerry are prepared to deliver neither.
"In …
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…Windows 8 desktop and tablet apps with them; I can even develop Android and BlackBerry apps. I just can't use them to develop Windows Phone apps. And I'm not the only one in this boat .
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With exposure to some great developers from Blackberry and the chance to put two of our own team on the project, we began to see the side to this company that wasn't represented in the media - a side with an ability to innovate the technology beyond the other mobile platforms currently winning all the praise.
Given our unique position working directly with Blackberry on this project, I was invited by BNN to offer my perspective on the plaform during both the lead-up to the launch and …
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…else on the horizon. Speaking of tomorrow, there are also smartwatches and, of course, Google Glasses. And we doubt that anyone will toss out their smartphone anytime soon. Well, unless the Blackberry makes a come back (kidding).
Numbers like these just go to show us how imperative it is to design for multiple devices, to do so responsively . It's the only way we can meet the hungry of an ever-growing mobile audience.
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…also many different platforms for app development. From objective C for iOS to C++ for BlackBerry, each operating system comes with its own requirements and skill sets. There are also web apps, designed to be built once and deployed effectively across multiple operating systems.
Choosing where to build your app depends on your customers and how they behave, as well as considerations such as time and budget. For example, when building an Android app consider that a large portion of your budget …
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Score + 1 if you know what OOP is,
Score +2 if you write tests ( UnitTest, RSpec, or some other test driven framework),
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Score +1 if you use source control extensively. Bonus +1 if you use git,
Score +2 for being very comfortable working in an *nix / linux environment,
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…(clients are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile or BlackBerry with the full list here ). This way an attacker will need not only steal or guess password, but also to gain an access to cell phone, which is not impossible, but makes things more complicated.
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