Certainly publishers will be drawn to the Xbox One platform thanks to the promise of monetized used game sales.
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Bellini says there is school of thought that consumers want to work off one platform, not more than one.
One platform serves all four, a single application binary can do the same.
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Store: Allowing you to store a lifetime of images, all on one platform.
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It seems friendly, promising to integrate fully with Facebook, and transferring game progress from one platform to the other.
The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms.
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Microsoft grand vision to have one platform that works equally well on a range of devices has not been implemented well.
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However, over time, project manager Kai Hansen told the BBC that what was on one platform should be on the other.
Microsoft helped fix that by producing versions of its Office suite that create documents that can move easily from one platform to the other.
It might be the case that an iPhone app makes more sense for your company (assuming you can only afford to build for one platform).
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Currently Cambridge railway station has only one platform for longer trains.
Staffers, contributors and marketers, all on one platform, all clearly identified, all connecting with one another and the FORBES audience of 25 million monthly visitors.
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Instead of Facebook being the Walmart of social media, it will become just one platform in a big ecology, including photo sharing with Instragram, broadcasting with Twitter, etc.
The new Focus will be built on one platform and will have the same engine, transmission, chassis and main body in all the markets where it is sold.
At the same time, many retailers have yet to effectively blend online and store loyalty programs, at least when it comes to redeeming points from one platform to another.
Dubbed "Intelligent Services, " the program dangles a one-for-one platform replacement option before service providers, many of which are right now looking to build out broadband offerings with service add-ons, Melkote said.
In most cases, a file created in Office on one platform will appear just fine in the other, and no conversion process is needed because both use the same file formats.
And not just one platform, but all of them?
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But the company wants to diversify away from Facebook, because the number of users it can acquire on the social network is slowing and so as not to be too dependent on one platform.
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Integrating all these data types in one platform and using their power in full conjunction across an enterprise is the long-term possibility of Metropolis, which makes it a very different animal from traditional quant platforms.
Previously, Ford's product cadence has been uncoordinated, globally, with some regions of the world using one platform generation while other regions were limited to older and lesser platforms, with generational inferiorities baked in, as it were.
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Developers who want to hit it big are now being forced to write not for just one platform (Windows) but for many platforms like iOS 5.0, iOS 6.0, Linux, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean (not to mention Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispy Treats).
By aiming to have one platform run across multiple device footprints, they can leverage the support and tools from the desktop version of Ubuntu and put them into a mobile device running the same code, but with a mobile UI layer on the top.
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In terms of features and power, most MDM and MEAP software are true peers with one-platform solutions such as System Center or RIM.
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TripAdvisor is one such platform that provides travel related reviews, aggregating around 75 million reviews and opinions about destinations, accommodations, restaurants and other activities.
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We have taken enterprise content management, and social business or collaboration and fused them into one central platform that can be made part of the work process.
The new release supports the Steam Play licensing system, meaning a customer can purchase it for one desktop platform and play it on another at no extra cost.
"Disney Infinity introduces a new way to interact with the best of Disney on one game platform, both now and in the future, " said John Pleasants, co-president, Disney Interactive.
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Brown, an investment bank, reckons that to hold its own against the Americans, Europe can sustain only one large weapons-platform manufacturer and one defence-electronics group.
With a one-head platform design and fewer mechanical parts, the reliability and acoustic features of the Spinpoint F4 have been improved.
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