Sega released it to Mac users first to take advantage of Apple's newfound love of games.
"We're serving the needs of business users first, " says Sean Poulley, IBM's vice president of Web collaboration services.
To get the Orbit's blades whirring, users first need to set a pre-determined goal by adjusting a slider in the app.
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Complicating matters is that the legitimate Evernote e-mail pushes users first to a website with the domain name "mkt5371" before taking them to Evernote itself.
His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deeply ingrained in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.
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Sabet believes in getting users first.
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Quick Response, or QR, codes are a type of barcode loaded with information that, when scanned with a phone or other device, can open a web page, social media site or video (users first need to download an app, available for iPhone, iPad and Android).
This goes a long way, if you own the product, you are the first one looking for bugs, first communicating with users and first worrying about whether or not you got it right.
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Users came first, revenue was just a necessity to get his mission of connecting the world executed.
The companies that succeed are the ones that stay in the closest contact with their end-users and first adopters, as MIT's Eric Von Hippel has shown.
This is the bit that is actually important to the users, the first part that gets specified by said users.
When first released, it gained 25, 000 users in the first 24 hours, all because of word of mouth and support from some influential friends in Silicon Valley.
Launched in September 2005, Netvibes attracted 15, 000 users on the first day and has since grown quickly: the number of users is expected to exceed 10m this month.
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It acquired 7 million users in its first year and is now up to 34 million.
Facebook trumpets that it had 901m average monthly users in the first quarter of 2012.
When we introduced that app, we had over a million users in the first month.
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Toronto-based Kobo, the e-reader and digital book company, is one of the first users of Rypple Flow.
In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%).
Notably, mobile daily active users were larger than web daily active users for the first time in the fourth quarter.
Its new FrontierVille game saw initial success, rocketing to 20 million users in its first five weeks after launching last June.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter users were the first to alert others last summer after an earthquake hit Southern California.
According to Nielsen, Brazil had 82.4 million Internet users in the first quarter of 2012 compared with 62.3 million three years earlier.
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They are all in an acceleration program that pushes them create or improve their functional prototype and acquire their first users in six months.
This may prove a disadvantage: developers will need to get used to it before creating apps, so users may at first find they have limited choices.
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Mobile monthly active users in the first quarter were 751 million, up 54% from a year ago and up sequentially from 680 million in the fourth quarter.
Twitter, a microblogging service, received 679 requests from American authorities for information about users in the first half of this year, which is more than it got in all of 2011.
Additionally, the number pad is now on the bottom third of the dual-slide mechanism, not a big deal, but just enough to throw off users upgrading the first time it's opened.
We knew that the site would attract a significant number of users in its first day of operation, but we had no idea that this volume of traffic would be achieved so quickly.
And it gives us the figures on how vulnerable gas supplies are: households would suffer interruption of gas supply if more than 60% of sources are cut off, assuming that industrial users take the first impact and cut their demand.
The new survey, which was conducted in the third quarter of this year, shows that the number of Internet users has nearly tripled since the first survey, which estimated the number of Internet users to be 34 million.
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