ConceptDog

Lots of projects want to simplify the app development process, and there are even more startups working on automating the process. Ultimately it's fine for prototyping, but not much else. Performance becomes an issue and you rapidly hit it wall with anything but native apps.

It's good to get your feet wet and get excited about the platform, regardless of it being Android or iOS, but at some point you need to just bite the bullet and pick up a good book and start working.

Just like Email is a fad, the internet is a fad, the web is a fad, smartphones are a fad, television is a fad, radio is a fad, books are a fad....

Applications for "HEY FRUSTRATED MICROSOFT GUYS, PLEASE COME START SOMETHING!" now open.

Outsourcing: The way large american businesses do business when it requires innovation.

I like the first answer from quora, but with one exception.. That being an understanding of business and priorities. Great engineers understand that ultimately, they're responsible for shipping product in a business setting.

In your personal open source project or side projects you can afford to be experimental and push the box, but when you're in a business setting, you need to balance the need to ship with the desire and drive to be experimental and solid. Get from point A to point B balancing risk, reward, and speed.

Zynga.

Zynga continues to implement Lean with it's products. They don't develop any new feature in any product without concrete proof of user interest. Put up the "store" sign, make it clickable, if enough users click it, develop the feature.

Simple, straight forward, validated.

The coin game introduced chaos into the event. If the desire was to maintain order, providing an open ended game play mechanism where players have to game one another doesn't promote a system of order.

This guy did a great job of gaming the actual game and did what players in real games do all the time. Find the easiest way to competitive advantage through the available mechanics, even if it is through a loophole in the rules.

Maybe they would have been happier if he had traded his credit card for the bag of coins instead.

Round 2 of the mobile wars will be won in the same way as Round 1, by casting the widest net amongst all the platforms.

People make money by producing many apps on iPhone now. People will make more money producing many apps on many platforms in the near future.

Box2d is amazing, and powers about 90% of physics flash games and now a good portion of iPhone games as well.

It's also a great example of a creator having buyers remorse about the licence used. At somepoint the creator decided to be altruistic and release it in a way that it could be used far and wide in applications across hundreds of platforms. Now people are using it in fabulous projects and very rightly, getting famous and wealthy through those creations.

That said, Angry Birds isn't successfull because of it's physics engine. In fact, there isn't one single element of the game that makes it successful. The Rovio guys studied their audience, listened to feedback, and invested everything in creating a killer app.

Box2d was one bolt in the process, and if the licence had prevented the developers from utilizing it, they would have swapped it out for another model. It wasn't the lynch pin to Angry Birds' success.

I actually just recieved my Sony LiveView in the mail today. Worn like a watch, it's more of a phone accessory than anything else. I can get updates as to phone calls, messages, and twitter, all without pulling out my phone which is usually buried in my pocket or in my jacket pocket.

The wrist is prime real estate for devices now. If apple didn't have a plan for this, I'd be shocked.

Book and movie distribution channels have approximately 2 years left to evolve or die. Music faced the same thing and decided to fight a losing war.

They can be smart and embrace the change before it overwhelms them or be stuck culturally in traditional distribution and get swept away before recovering as music has done through iTunes and indy.

Ugh. He should have skipped writing about this. No matter the validity of his words, whatever he says will be percieved as sour grapes.

Get used to this. Borders is clearly just the weakest of the pack. Lots of book stores have tried to diversify into markets they don't understand to try to compete. Culturally, they can't handle amazon or apple working in their space.

As tablets and phones drop to the 300 / 150 range respectively, bookstores are going to go the way of music stores in the very near future. B&N has a great chance right now with Nook Color. They should drop the e-reader only aspect and launch a fully supported android device with a kick ass e-reader in it.

Lots of people root their Nooks and turn them into good tablets, B&N could pop out a basic tablet at $250 right now and eat a huge chunk of the market that's going to appear near the end of the year.

I was very excited when I saw a demo of this, but the review I watched seems to imply that it sucks for bluetooth connectivity. I'm wondering inPulse has the same issues.