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4 Ways API and Mobile App Development Teams Can Work Together To Ensure Security
Mobile represents new risks and unique attack vectors that require the focus of the whole organization, not just one team Underwriters Laboratories (UL) rates safes on the length of time it would take an attacker with normal tools to break in and steal your valuables. In addition, most safes are bolted to the floor from within the …
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Gamification and Your Mobile App Development
How to perfect gamification in your app. Gamification is one of the most popular buzzwords when discussing mobile app strategy. So what does it mean? Gamification is the application of game mechanics to non-game contexts, encouraging action and rewarding accomplishments. Over the past few years, more and more product owners have come to me asking …
What is Apple thinking?!
Apple’s latest round of App Store capriciousness indicates a huge threat to their long-term future. Apple certainly has it’s share of naysayers and doom-predictors, and there’s no shortage of people who are waiting in line to give Tim Cook advice (or call for his replacement). In general, I would disagree with all of that. Tim …
Three Things We Humans Are Terrible At And What It Means For Mobile App Development
Three pitfalls of self-delusion and how humility, flexibility, and knowledge can save your mobile app development project. 1. Multitasking The term “multitasking” came from my world of computer science. Doing multiple things at once can elusively make us feel as though we are multiplying our productivity, but the actual truth is pretty damning. While you …
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AT&T’s tantrum, Apple’s stumble, and Shazam’s BDD
AT&T takes back their tantrum (and let us never speak of it again) One worry in the massively complicated, “if you don’t pick the right side you’re a bad person and should feel bad” Net Neutrality debate is the idea that without any financial incentive (that is, without the ability to charge content creators extra …
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2014 Automotive Mobile App Study
With over 30 years of combined experience working with some of the biggest automotive brands in the business, Brant and I are passionate about automotive, mobile and the opportunities for innovation in this space. This is our second year conducting an in-depth analysis of the state of mobile automotive apps in the US App Store. …
The Fall of TV, Apple Pay, 6% Whales, and Facebook’s (latest) Fail
“More revolution will come from smartphones than from any previous computing product in history. It’s because of this that we will see a future with one billion more people online, a future only made possible because of mobile.” –@BenBajarin TV: The King has Fallen Last week we talked about the incredible growth mobile internet has …
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Why CTOs Need to Think About APIs Before Websites
By moving the primary focus from your website to your API, your organization will be far more prepared to thrive in the mobile revolution. I came out of college right at the exciting explosion of the web. Most people paid little attention to it, Wired looked like this, and my family would get excited when …
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