Insights: Mobile

So you wanna write iPhone apps, eh?

-I do write iPhone apps.

So you wanna get paid to write them, eh?

-Yes!  Gimme, gimme! 

A familiar conversation, a universal trope, but one that presents a conundrum.  After basic training, what’s next!? 

Let’s say that you:

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Sometimes you spend way too much time googling a question when you have the power to answer it yourself. Man has become increasingly forgetful as it learns to retrieve information from the web. You can read about it here but chances are you won't retain much. (Don't believe me? How are your times tables?  Name the planets.  Go someplace new without your GPS...Yeah I thought...

One of my more exciting duties at DOOR3 is R&D, aka "Will! We heard about this magic; Is it true?!" My boss then gives me the description of a new technology and I create a 'Proof of Concept' (POC) that it works or a report explaining that it doesn't.

Just this last Friday, I was briefed on HTML5's offline features referred to sometimes as 'Application Caching'....

As a relatively recent business school graduate, it doesn’t seem too long ago that I was sitting in some of my, ahem, less scintillating lectures wherein seemingly everyone was checking emails, playing games or texting on their Blackberrys.  In 2008 Blackberry was the undisputed industry standard boasting 14 million subscribers and virtually...

With all of the great hardware features of the iOS platform (GPS, Notifications, Camera/Video, etc) it's easy to forget that every device is equipped with a microphone and the ability to record voice and sound.  On the iPhone, the microphone plays a critical role in telephone conversations but on other devices such as the iPad and iPod, it is a somewhat underutilized...

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