What is driving RIM to release a product that feels unreliable, has mediocre battery life (at best) and that lacks table stake applications like native personal information management (PIM) functionality is just unimaginable to me.

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To reach true OS agnosticism 6Wunderkinder, however, relied on HTML5 -- which makes porting an app easy, but comes with its own drawbacks, including lackluster performance. (Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.) With the revamp, Wunderlist 2, the task management platform now has truly native apps for Android, iOS, OS X and Windows to compliment its web site.

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Anderson called in Eugene Litvak, a 57-year-old Boston University operations management expert who'd studied telecommunications in his native Russia.

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There are nowhere near the number of native Mac business applications for higher end accounting, customer relationship management and Office as for a Windows environment.

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Other shortcomings of HTML5 in comparison to native applications include the fact that it presently lacks the DRM (Digital Rights Management) needed for many multimedia services, does not support background processing, and is missing secure storage and notifications outside of applications.

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The Kings' new owners are led by Christopher Hansen, founder of Valiant Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund in San Francisco, and a Seattle native.

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The Shanghai native, one of the founders of Greenland Group in 1992, had studied economics and management at Shanghai Agricultural Institute.

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