A services/sharing architecture on par with what is offered by Windows Phone and Android.
An update to iMessage that makes it reliable.
An update to iMessage that allows people to leave group chats.
Multiple people on FaceTime calls.
Xcode 5 with better refactoring tools, smarter smart sense and less crashes.
A separate documentation viewer from Xcode itself so that command-tabbing between code and documents is possible and I can remove that weird purple icon DashCode uses …
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… these people make about 26% of the U.S. population.
Sure, he sounds delusional, but he's saying what he has to say. If you really want delusional, you have to go back in time to 2010, at the "funeral" held for Android and iOS when Windows Phone went golden master. I was still working at Microsoft at the time — as a Windows Phone Champ, no less — and I was embarrassed.
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Why I Don't Develop for Windows Phone
Since I was once a Microsoft developer evangelist specializing in Windows Phone and a designated Windows Phone Champ , I'm occasionally asked why I don't do Windows Phone development anymore.
One of the reasons is quite simple: I can't . I'd need new hardware. Even more so than SharePoint developer Sahil Malik. At worst, he has to wait ten minutes for each build. I can't even do that.
Here's …
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…platform for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and OS X. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch a full-featured app in record time by focusing on the experience and not worrying about servers. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and the ability to add rich custom logic to your app's backend with Cloud Code.
The post Say Hello to Parse, New Relic's Newest Mobile Partner appeared …
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…Google Authenticator can be your cell-phone (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.
The setup actually is quite easy if you follow steps:
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…to create a mobile app , portable across multiple platforms such as IOS, Android, Windows Mobile? Well, the goal of this post is to present a potential approach. (Of course you can take a peek at the "So What?" section)
The idea behind PhoneGap is to provide a cross-mobile-platform framework allowing a self-contained web app built using HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript to run inside a full screen web view , while allowing access to the device features such …
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…declared their allegiences in the iOS versus Android versus please pay attention to us Windows Phone war. Each company has their own ecosystem with its own lock-in in terms of apps purchases, and other digital media tightly wrapped in proprietary DRM. Lock-in may prevent people from easily packing up and walking next door to try the waters of another platform, but if Apple continues to be the Apple of 2012 when it comes to cloud services, those little green robots start becoming a lot …
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Windows Phone
Manufacturer
Model
Screen Size
Resolution Nokia Lumia 920 4.5″ 1280×768 HTC Windows Phone 8S 4″ WVGA HTC Windows Phone 8X 4.3″ HD 720p HTC Titan 4.7″ 480×800 Dell Venue Pro 4.1″ WVGA AMOLED Samsung ATIV S 4.8″ HD Super AMOLED Nokia Lumia 610 3.7″ 800×480 Nokia Lumia 900 4.3″ 800×480 LG Optimus 7 E900 3.8″ 800*480
If you are at all familiar with the available Android and Windows…
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Windows Phone 8 gaining favour of BlackBerry 10? 45% of IT managers surveyed plan to support Windows Phone 8 devices; 34% plan to support BlackBerry 10.
Tablet usage is up in all non-executive departments, especially legal, HR/administration and finance/accounting.
The iPad is the top choice of tablets, with support from 73% of the companies surveyed.
Also noteworthy:
55% of the companies surveyed had mobile device security issues last year, mostly having to do with …
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-70.7% Windows Phone/ Windows Mobile
17.9
2.5%
9.0
1.8%
98.9% Others
15.1
2.1%
16.3
3.3%
-7.4% Total
722.4
100.0%
494.5
100.0%
46.1%
For more, see the summary of their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
How IDC's 2015 Mobile OS Share Predictions are Holding Up
Here's a chart based on IDC's predicted mobile OS market share for 2015 :
They might be a little off with their prediction …
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