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Goodby mapshake.com

crossI am leaving mapshake.com domain to expire, mapshake is social network site for map creation that had just one user , actually me 🙂 as nobody enjoyed this as much as myself… I really liked you, mapshake.com, your daughter iKatastr.cz  will remind you to me !

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Why developers should build on iOS before heading to Android

“Our first decision was to restructure and refactor code as much as possible into a common software development kit (SDK) platform, all written in C++, and subsequently design a unified multi-sensor and multi-threaded architecture compatible with both Android and iOS. This allowed us to validate all critical sensor processing code on one platform and easily port to another, as well as to provide SDK integration options for a range of partnerships.”

Who is able to stuff a desktop-class software inside the smartphone ?

“Mike Lazaridis was at home on his treadmill and watching television when he first saw the Apple iPhone in early 2007. There were a few things he didn’t understand about the product. So, that summer, he pried one open to look inside and was shocked. It was like Apple had stuffed a Mac computer into a cellphone, he thought.

from: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside-story-of-why-blackberry-is-failing/article14563602/#dashboard/follows/

6 years later September 10th:  iPhone is featuring an all-new A7 chip, making iPhone 5s the world’s first smartphone with 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance in the palm of your hand.

 

who is able to stuff a desktop-class  software inside the desktop-classs CPU powered smartphone  ?

Mobile processors & iPhone 5S

Rise of mobile processors:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/378712/rise-of-the-mobile-processors/3

iPhone 5S review
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review

iPhone 5S 64bit processor – what does it  mean
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-5s-64-bit-a7-processor/

Making sense of smartphones processors:
http://www.techautos.com/2010/03/14/smartphone-processor-guide/

Comparing CPU Power Between Smartphones and Notebooks with SunSpider
http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2012/11/comparing-cpu-power-between-smartphones-and-notebooks-with-sunspider.html

 

Notes on native vs. HTML apps

This is like fox and stork story, deep or shallow, Native or Html. ( btw. the picture here is from Czech painter “Josef Lada”). As I am more ‘stork’ than fox, I have collected few resources for other ‘storks’ out there.

My understanding is that mobile platforms are ‘extension of the human senses’ and this trends continues with wearable computing devices, smaller, tighter in resources. Doesn’t matter what software you write, whether enterprise or consumer it is extension of us, our finger touch, eye view, near real time.

Stork links :

http://www.marcozehe.de/2012/12/10/why-do-native-mobile-apps-seem-to-win-all-the-time/

http://www.zdnet.com/heres-why-html-based-apps-dont-work-7000012942/

http://mobiforge.com/developing/blog/why-html5-still-presents-some-problems-mobile

http://boagworld.com/mobile-web/the-problem-with-mobile-frameworks/

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

http://j15r.com/blog/2013/07/05/Box2d_Addendum