Many companies find themselves with a variety of platform-specific data sets that are difficult to bring together, leaving the analytics team fighting with the data instead of creating insights.

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However, many view the language as a "work in progress" when it comes to mobile and believe that for the time being native apps - those coded for a specific platform - offer advantages.

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Of course, when clicking for more information, we're simply ported over to a page informing us that the Mac-specific version of the aforesaid platform won't arrive until September.

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If you can do it as a stand-alone app, then specific to Apple platform, and they let Adobe do that.

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In March, Zynga announced plans to build a gaming platform at Zynga.com for gamers to connect outside of Facebook in a game-specific website.

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It could be a single device with various multimedia goodies: digital camera, video recorder, gaming device, wireless device, and cell phone although knowing Apple's penchant for maintaining simple interfaces, it's also likely we could see a whole lineup of multimedia devices catering to specific niches, complete with a common development platform for the fleet of Alphamosaic-based iPods.

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OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.

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