…Bach and J Allard , both from the Entertainment and Devices division (who brought forth the Xbox) are only contributing to the vision vacuum. I think that this leaves them stuck in their current mode, best described as "Winning business [is] more important than making great products" by Steve Jobs or lacking "technical rigor" near the top, as Mini-Microsoft put it .
Where Microsoft is Doing Well
The article doesn't cast Microsoft…
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def create_device @ device = Device.find_or_create_by_token!({ :token => token, :description => description, :user_id => user.id }) !@device.nil? end end
I store the created device in an instance variable to handle the last part:
Responding in a Meaningful Way
I can now make the Credential resource responsible for its own response: class Credential def as_json(options = {}) {:api_key => @device.api_key} end end
This handles …
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Not All Devices, A Sampling
Around the office we have some 12 different devices that we test our designs on, which we've acquired over the years. Here's a quick rundown of devices we test:
4 Android phones
2 PCs
Our iPads (with retina display)
Of course, our iPhones as well
A Mac loaded with virtual machine (which has Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE 6-7 on Windows XP or Windows 7)
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Mobile Devices Now Make Up About 20 Percent of U.S. Web Traffic. These results come from Chitika, an online advertising network, who say that tablet and mobile phone internet usage peak during the evening hours. They also say that iPads account for 95% of tablet-based traffic, while iPhones account for 72% of phone-based web traffic. Android account for 26% of phone-based web traffic, and Windows Phone web traffic is one-third the traffic from BlackBerry phones.
Are Comics Thinking About Designing Across All Devices, At Last?
Not really. Marvel is focused solely on dedicated apps for those devices, such as iOS and Android, rather than thinking holistically. What the company is actually planning is the perfect illustration of a digital shortsightedness, reacting to the here and now, ignoring the different phones, tablets, and other web-enabled devices yet to come.
While we think it's great that Marvel is thinking about smartphones …
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Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Fri Aug 26 22:11:26 2011
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Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
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