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.
There's another bonus: "Native" apps are built to run on a specific platform.
Interest in Android OS will continue to rise among mobile virus writers, whose efforts will be focused primarily on creating malicious programs that target this specific platform.
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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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Even if we all stopped writing new code for Windows (as, to some extent is true, we have done, much writing is now being done in Python and so on which is not platform or OS specific) right now then there are vast numbers of legacy systems out there that will continue to require Windows licenses for decades to come.
Mostly this means creating content that is specific to each platform, or at least viewable on each.
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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.
But relatively few have endorsed so specific an energy platform in their own backyards, much less promised to campaign on it.
With a common platform developers can focus on the specific application of their drone, rather than the flying system of the drone itself.
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That way, they can minimize software development needs while still offering variety, which could defend against cyberattacks targeted at a specific type of software platform.
With Google Now, a person standing on a train platform may receive information about when a specific train is arriving and if there are delays.
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How often an app crashes depends on a combination of factors such as the platform (Android or iOS), specific operating system (iOS 5 vs 6) and the device.
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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Although not an expert in our specific business, it provided a platform of information sharing for entrepreneurs.
There's fingerprint readers, but they're often specific to the device or the platform, and sometimes limited to just a handful of tasks.
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I've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each other.
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.
Yes, Android as a platform is numerically stronger than the iPhone, but in terms of sales of a specific handset, Apple still has the number one handset.
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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As my colleague James McQuivey summed it up recently, this platform war is also expanding into the TV space even though Apple did not make any specific announcement on this topic yet.
The AMD Open 3.0 platform is designed to easily enable IT professionals to "right size" the server to meet specific compute requirements.
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Utilizing a PayPal platform active across applications on their smartphone, consumers will be able to open the application of a specific retailer and use the integrated PayPal account to make a purchase with just two clicks.
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.
The International Seminar on "the Implementation of National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF): Policies and Strategies" will serve as a platform for the government of Thailand to draw key learning points from the experiences of various countries to help them design specific policies for the future implementation of a Thai NQF.
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