Posts tagged with 'developers'
Twitter's API has been one of the most popular on the consumer internet for years, but Twitter's relationship with developers has at times been quite tumultuous.
There's a good reason for that: as Twitter has grown into one of the largest social networking companies in the world, making money has become far more important than keeping developers happy.
For developers building things that potentially threaten or limit Twitter's ability to earn revenue, that has meant trouble.
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by Patricio Robles
17 August 2012 09:48am
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Microsoft is making big, bold bets on its new operating system, Windows 8, which is set for release later this year.
Windows 8 is, in large part, Microsoft's response to a world that is increasingly mobile, and in which tablet devices may be competing with desktops for consumers' computing time.
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by Patricio Robles
17 July 2012 15:12pm
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Even if a company like Microsoft decides to play white knight and save it, BlackBerry maker RIM will likely never be the same.
The company is in, for lack of a better word, chaos and many observers believe the end may be near.
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by Patricio Robles
13 July 2012 20:54pm
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Amazon's first Kindle devices may have been ereaders, but with the Kindle Fire, Amazon is neck deep in the tablet world.
Previous research has found that tablets are popular gaming devices, so it's no surprise that Amazon is interested in making sure its app store is filled with compelling games.
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by Patricio Robles
12 July 2012 14:44pm
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When Face.com announced it was being acquired by Facebook last month for a reported $80 to $100m, you can be sure that it was happy day for Face.com's founders, employees and investors.
But it wasn't necessarily a day worth celebrating for developers relying on Face.com's facial recognition API. The reason: Face.com had just been acquired by one of tech's biggest names and as we've seen time and time again, that often means big changes ahead.
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by Patricio Robles
09 July 2012 14:01pm
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Life is generally pretty easy for Apple. Consumers love its products, which they continue to snap up at a rapid pace, and the company's iOS ecosystem is arguably the most impressive around.
But the past week has been anything but easy for the Cupertino-based tech giant.
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by Patricio Robles
06 July 2012 20:52pm
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Developing iOS apps can be a rewarding and, for some, extremely lucrative exercise. But life isn't always easy for developers building iOS apps and distributing them through Apple's App Store, particularly when things go wrong.
Dozens of developers are being reminded of that today after an App Store issue began causing their apps to crash when users try to launch them.
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by Patricio Robles
05 July 2012 16:22pm
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What do you do when your company surpasses 100m users and begins cementing its status as one of the internet's most popular services?
If you're Twitter, you apparently start adding restrictions to the API that helped you achieve some of your popularity, cutting off functionality offered by other popular services in the process.
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by Patricio Robles
02 July 2012 17:01pm
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Last October, Google introduced limits to the Google Maps API and unveiled pricing for users exceeding those limits.
It was not a happy day for developers and companies running popular services on the Google Maps API. The reason: Google's jaw-dropping pricing, which pegged the cost of every 1,000 map loads above 25,000 at $4.
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by Patricio Robles
25 June 2012 14:56pm
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Of the few markets in which Flash is still relevant, gaming is perhaps the largest. Despite the fact that Adobe seems intent on killing Flash, for many game developers, Flash is still a necessity.
The big question, of course, is for how long? There's a lot of excitement about HTML5, and some game developers have actually been experimenting with HTML5 game development.
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by Patricio Robles
22 June 2012 18:37pm
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