Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything | Mobile – CNET News. No surprise. Samsung, with the lion’s share of Android marketshare, is positioning itself to usurp power and control from Google. Considering their ambitions, this is their only hope.
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Samsung Dangling the Carrot for Tizen Devs
Samsung offers $4 million bounty to populate Tizen app store. So, Samsung is offering $4M to developers to write apps for the Tizen platform. The kicker – Tizen isn’t Android. It’s a linux-based mobile OS that focuses on hybrid web technologies, much like WebOS. Let’s put the news into some perspective: Samsung is undisputedly the …
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MapBox Visualizes 3 Billion Tweets
Visualizing 3 Billion Tweets The patterns of usage in each city often reflect economic stratification. For example iPhones, in red, are predominantly in wealthy sections of the city while Android phones, in green, have more coverage in poorer sections. On a global level, national trends reveal a complicated set of cultural preferences. I wouldn’t say …
Underwhelming Android Experience
Ryan Heise summed it up nicely in Four Months With Android. I used an HTC incredible for 11 months. There are some great things about Android, but the negatives far outweigh the benefits for me. Android was just underwhelming. The UI and UX isn’t as nicely polished as iOS. Android apps, on average, just aren’t …
Will Hybrid Mobile Apps Prevail Over Native?
I’ve been wrestling with this question for some time, and I thought this post may help sort out my thoughts and opinions while giving you some important insight. Are hybrid mobile apps going to become the developer’s choice anytime soon? The debate can be pretty heated as companies choose one technology over the other. Hybrid, …
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