pete:
developer, entrepreneur, designer, photographer, frequent flyer, coffee/wine drinking, sandle-wearing, net surfing, texting, tennis/dart-playing, code hacker.
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THE 74TH HUNGER GAMES ARE APPROACHING!And there is a fantastic line-up of Tributes. Check out the trailer for this year’s event and see for...
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(via New from Mim)
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Things we’re loving today: TarGetBooks Shelf by Mebrure Oral
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Scrambled Video Game Characters - by Laura Vidal
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App stores are not the future, says Google
The problem is that no-one wants to pay for web pages or web-based apps which means advertising (usually supplied by Google) ends up being the only way to make money. You can see why Google likes this option.
However, Apple is rapidly building a mobile platform of epic size (40 million strong already and accelerating) full of users that are addicted to paying for native apps 1.5 billion downloaded and counting through the easiest to use online store in the world (65,000 apps and growing) and many developers are making serious cash.
Apple’s iPhone OS has become the “Windows” of the Smartphone world in terms of app marketshare and is now THE platform to develop for and THE shop for end-users to buy from. I don’t see this slowing down anytime soon.
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In response to Google Engineering vice president Vic Gundotra predicting that the Web would prevail as the dominant mobile application development platform.
