And for many developers, the fate of their business still lies with Apple and Google.
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Gartner adds that for many developers the outlay for ads is close to the maximum ad income or even exceeds it.
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Guidelines, approval processes and vetting are the norm for many developers.
Equally worrisome for many developers are the strict display guidelines that prevent tweets from being transformed into standard formats that make sense for feed aggregation sites.
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The big drawback of course is that HTML5-based services are not enabled with push notifications, itself a lingering problem for many mobile web developers.
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No other system includes so many tools for game developers to create new and fun experiences for players.
The strategy is gaining momentum in mobile and has become the standard model for apps, where many developers can make money from the 1% or so of people who make in-app purchases of virtual goods.
For many economists, urbanists and developers, the answer is simple: We should build up.
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Making a neighborhood a historic district doesn't stop development, but it does make it impossible for developers to raze many of the existing structures and requires them to seek commission approval for new ones on vacant lots.
There are many talented developers, for example, who are happy to invest countless hours with no cash compensation to develop open source software such as the Firefox browser or the Linux operating system because it gives them satisfaction and a chance to show off their coding chops to the broader community of developers.
Silverlight also made it easier for developers to hook into the many back office systems Microsoft produces to help enrich the services that could be put online.
The Shanghai municipal government set new price guidelines on homes that qualify for preferential transaction tax treatment, widening a tax benefit for many home buyers in the city as developers struggle with falling sales there.
Many developers originally resisted building products for the demanding 64-bit computing environment.
Like many developers scrambling to build applications for the device, Ghaffary, vice president of business development at Stitcher, says all he knows is that Apple will start making apps available sometime in early July, around the time the company launches its new 3G iPhone.
Less than a year after Benioff first gave away code that let independent developers build things for Salesforce, 18, 000 developers have registered on the site, so many more mashup apps are certainly on the way.
For app developers, the business model that underpins many free apps relies on data collected from users.
Many developers weaned on polygons found the tools provided for the first generation of PowerVR chips (which came out in 1996) hard to work with.
Unity has had a good deal of success in the iPhone market, where its engine is used by many developers, and is gaining momentum with support for consoles like the Wii and Xbox 360.
Third-party developers have created many apps that access the data for smart-phone users.
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His rosy outlook on spreading the love of gaming for free is shared by few others in the industry, and many indie developers have taken huge hits when piracy has cleaved through sales of their titles.
As a result, this collaboration will help empower Unity Technologies' global community of more than 1.5 million registered developers to create better mobile gaming experiences with advanced graphics for many Snapdragon-based Android and Windows devices across the world.
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Schools like Full Sail are quite common for new developers and extreme hobbyists to take courses in game creation, many gamers have begun to find more novel and somewhat more practical applications for their hobby, some of which may be helping to save lives.
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If successful, the Bush administration will accomplish through rules what conservative Republicans have been unable to achieve in Congress: ending some environmental reviews that developers and other federal agencies blame for delays and cost increases on many projects.
For now, it's seemingly at a crossroads, with many of the big developers watching the turn of events.
But like many young developers, Estarriaga, just 27, seems to have built this for his own pleasure, his own challenge.
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Google would not say how many folks develop software for its platforms, but arch rival Microsoft says there are 4 million developers for its .
OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
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