Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

With the introduction of the iPad in 2010 many publishers felt the ideal form factor had arrived, and Apple’s App Store was distribution’s Holy Grail.

Developing an Enterprise Approach to Emerging and Mobile Technology By Matt Chisholm, Mark Hewitt, Adam Stachelek, and Alec Francesconi Executive Summary Organizations face a proliferation of customer channels including desktop, smart phones, tablets, media players, and connected TVs. Multi-channel challenges include understanding customer expectations, cost-effective software development, team [...]

Last night Cantina’s Responsive Design and the Challenges of Developing Mobile Apps roundtable event was well attended and boasted a rich, interactive discussion of the challenges and successes Cantina’s consultants have seen in the field. Our discussion leaders focused on responsive design and mobile app development. The consultants shared [...]

Join Cantina Thursday September 29th at our Newton Center offices for a Cantina After-Hours Roundtable on Responsive Design and the Challenges of Developing Mobile Apps. This will be an open-format discussion with Cantina’s consultants and developers about the challenges and solutions we’ve found designing apps for the mobile [...]

In our continuing series of conversations with Dan Barron and George White they discuss the surprising recent announcements from HP, canceling not only the recently launched WebOS HP TouchPad tablet, but their discontinuation of all WebOS devices. Why is it that no one has come close to Apple’s [...]

The article below has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, but I wanted to post it here as it includes some very poignant lessons on making the decision to deploy native applications built for specific mobile platforms or a web-based application that is deployed across many platforms. [...]

Publishers continue to migrate from traditional media platforms to embrace digital publishing solutions. This poses significant new challenges for the many publishers who do not have the in-house expertise to follow, evaluate and develop for all the new technologies and formats now available. The increasing speed of changes [...]

Organizations have options when developing mobile apps; the most significant choice is whether to develop native apps for specific phone OS’s (iOS, Android, Symbian) or to develop HTML5 web apps. Since native apps have more direct access to the phone’s hardware they can be more powerful, but there [...]

A few months ago, Apple set publishers and content provides on edge when they announced the terms for in-app subscriptions. The primary source of the complaint was a restriction that required publishers to offer subscriptions at the same price – or better – within an iOS app as [...]

  Brands want to develop disruptive, innovative apps that address true business needs and produce profits. So what is the current killer use case? B2B iPad sales apps, which deliver a rich, immediate, up-to-the-minute sales presentation with on-the-spot conversion, and invaluable business intelligence. Potential vertical applications that fit [...]