The competitive pressure will come not only from potential customers deciding to purchase rival smartphones, but also from developers not willing to devote their resources to a platform that has questionable chances of taking off.
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But developers also would have to pay for the right to build big: either by purchasing privately owned air rights over Grand Central Terminal or by contributing to a fund to pay for infrastructure upgrades.
This is bad for users, who miss out on cool new features or security fixes, but also bad for developers, who are forced to develop for a lowest common denominator lest they cause their app to break.
But developers are also anxious about how Apple may monitor and distribute applications.
We certainly hope it generates interest -- not only among developers but also among device manufacturers who want to do more than just talk about differentiation.
This is going to keep the build cost of the iPad mini low for Apple, but it also means that developers will already be very comfortable with the architecture of the iPad mini.
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Epic Games isn't just offering up its ubiquitous current-gen game creation tool Unreal Engine 3 to Oculus Rift developers, but also its next-gen tool, Unreal Engine 4.
Apple created a similar marketplace called the App Store for its iPhone, but the rules are different in that the company not only determines which developers sell there, but also which applications get sold.
Game developers like Konami, Playfish and Zynga participated in the beta, but now other developers and publishers will also be able to apply to the program.
The depth-sensing, motion tracking camera, designed for the XBox games console, was a hit with gamers, but also captured the imagination of hardware developers around the world.
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This will require more empathy with the users, but also more flexible relationships with the developers who will help users find their own value in all of that content.
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In its most recent annual report on mobile competition, the FCC described consumer mobile services as being shaped by an increasingly dynamic ecosystem, which includes not only the carriers but also handset manufacturers, operating systems developers, app providers and competition among broadband providers offering different technologies, including mobile, fiber, cable, and satellite networks.
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This was clearly a man that wanted to paint a picture for developers of the challenges they face today, but also to motivate them emphasizing simplicity and clarity as the key drivers that power his company.
The ability to work in the kind of visual environment that designers are used to, generate working comps for clients and export code for developers will both speed up design development, but also avoid the unintended awkwardness that can result from programmatic design decisions made without sufficient visual feedback.
But it also said it has some other advantages that some other Hollywood developers haven't had.
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The developers at the panel were also enthusiastic about Connect, but their banter may have belied the tension in their relationship with Facebook.
But the move is also bad news for competing URL shorteners from third-party developers.
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"Mac OSX is attractive to developers because they can access not only the core programming languages but also the large selection of Unix libraries that are available, " he said.
This has some distinct advantages (ask Bill Gates), but also some drawbacks, as when the platform splinters, confusing consumers and making app developers work harder for the same returns.
Calo says he also wants to encourage developers to build apps not only for functionality and fun, but with privacy in mind.
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Agreed, but I also blame the rise of Web 2.0 , which lured most of the available developers in the past few years off to create the next Farmville or Twitter.
Bolstered by users like Andersen and Ostrowski, developers are adapting their location-based applications to run on the iPad. (Most of these apps work best on the 3G version of the iPad, which has built-in GPS, but will also operate on the cheaper, Wi-Fi-only iPad.) The trend caught some developers by surprise.
But in this case, Zynga may not just be exploiting the work of other developers it might also exploit consumers.
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