Overseas developers can be less costly, but may lack a clear understanding of what an app is meant to do.
The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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The design, the UI, is what you see of an app, but the underlying architecture and how it effects performance is what you feel.
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It comes with a Live Preview feature, which is helpful because a lot of figuring out what works well using this app is trial and error.
Tricky, yes, but this is not what makes the app so impressive.
Which is what I hope the Staples App Center will turn out to be.
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What is impressive is that the company has been able to port its app to many mobile platforms.
If customers do business with you because you remember their face, name and what they like, there is no app for that.
What we find particularly intriguing is that the app also has intelligent photo selection.
What I love most about this app is users are greeted with a simple list broken into four sections.
The idea of the App Store, what Apple is doing, we're going to do that on a wide scale.
What Haufler focuses on instead is how the app makes people feel.
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This hugely popular shopping app lets you know what is on sale, where to find deals in the store, and gives you rewards.
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So if this app is opinionated, what is it opinionated about?
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At this point, you're probably wondering what exactly the point of this app is given the severe limitations of control, and that's a fair thing to wonder.
Playing with the app is pretty much what you'd expect -- touch controls are less than optimal, and the experience is like playing a ported console game on your phone or tablet.
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The first is really what Pebble is doing, the success of which will hinge a lot on the app ecosystem it is able to foster.
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When you get under the hood of what makes for great app experiences, this is the kind of stuff you come across.
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What really sets LightUp apart is the aforementioned AR app.
While it's a prototype that could easily change between now and the Wii U's holiday release (or whenever the app is available), what we've seen so far makes it clear Netflix will milk that second screen for all it's worth.
That sort of group play over mobile phones is what's likely to be a killer app for teens in the mobile gaming space.
From this information, the Automatic app comes up with what it thinks is your driving score for that week -- the higher the number, the better your driving.
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An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.
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This could, in fact, be an opportunity for the company to adopt a more open approach to its app ecosystem (similar to what Adobe is attempting with their new HLML 5 tools) that will continue to engage both power-users and the masses.
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Simply put, the model is the data (and by extension the HTML content of a website or app), the view is what you see on the screen (defined by the CSS styles of the user interface) and the controller is the logic that ties the two together (often expressed as the JavaScript or other interactive programming).
What differentiates the native iOS app from the HTML5 flavor is mainly the former's iPhoto import feature.
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Settings are available when you install the app that are supposed to explain exactly what is being shared and how.
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"What we might see at WWDC is Apple opening up the app economy approach they've had with the iPhone and iPad to the Apple TV, " Gartner analyst Michael McGuire told Wired.
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