But what if Samsung succeeds at building a user experience that is comparable or superior to what Apple comes up with?
Sites such as Alibaba.com, Bexcom.com, and TX123.com are still building up their user networks.
Whether through social media marketing or mechanisms like sign-up ads or daily deal sites, an increasing number of brand marketers are building out their user bases and having meaningful conversations with real people.
Building these new differentiating user experiences needs to be supported by robust design methods.
Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp has focused on building the company's user base for its minimalist blogging platform while leaving for later the question of earning money.
Chief Executive David Karp, who has so far focused on building the company's user base, in the past has scoffed at the idea of placing ads on users' blogs.
Social media is only as valuable as its ability to meet business goals such as aggregating and understanding social data and user preferences, building an online reputation for stakeholders, listening and engaging to increase loyalty and providing a means for like-minded consumers to engage about your brand and its products.
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In return, you, the marketer, gain permission-based access to his social profile information, building a lasting relationship with the user.
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This is just one more area where Apple is building up an ecosystem around creating delightful user experiences.
He likens the situation to the early days of iOS, when smart developers recognized that it was a platform worth building for despite the then-small user base.
There is probably a sweet spot of mid-sized apps that have particular enough user profiles, but a lot of that kind of user, that are worth building custom campaigns for.
Its approach involves detecting a phone user's location in a building using Wi-Fi signals that already exist inside the building.
The new frontier for enterprise software is building systems that conform and cater to the user and how they want to work.
This is the goal we are working towards but right now we want help travellers out with our free guide-building app and service and build up the user base.
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The app provides information about each building or landmark in the area giving the user an at-a-glance understanding of what restaurants, museums, shops and others places of interest are nearby.
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This is hyperlinked to user-friendly categorised resources in the Building and on the Internet.
Another problem: building a plane that would stabilize itself if a user put down its controller.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
But building a successful consumer Internet company requires attracting a massive user base.
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From their books to their blogs, their philosophy of providing simple, user-friendly software and practical business-building strategies is woven into every product like DNA strands.
Like other search programs, it works by building an index that can keep track of all of a user's mail and quickly search through it.
Ultimately, both machines are going to be very similar to one another since both Microsoft and Sony are building what amounts to cheap, mass-produced gaming PCs with simple user interfaces.
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Be it Southwest Airlines building a newsletter list, the ASPCA looking to build out a Facebook and Twitter community or Pepsi moving money away from the Super Bowl to building the Pepsi Refresh site, there is a huge advertiser demand for user data.
That alone would be pretty handy -- but the SmartThings team decided to take it a step further by building SmartApps, that is, applications for further customizing how SmartThings devices (and the user) interact with the every day objects they're attached to.
Through these services and utilities, brands can learn more deeply than ever about their customers by observing user behavior, and in turn provide better and more personal services and experiences, building stronger brand loyalty in the process.
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In building a native application for the BlackBerry 10 platform, WhatsApp has been able to provide a fantastic user experience that leverages the true multi-tasking capabilities of BlackBerry 10.
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In this way, building networks concentrically outward, Twitter could scale the data set that it pulls from to go with a given user and a given application.
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