Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

(Editor: Every so often our consultants have an in-depth email conversation between themselves on topics of emerging technology. These conversations are often informative and entertaining, so I’ve been tidying them up and posting them to our blog. This session focuses on the problems (or are they?) with Android [...]

We are pleased to announce the start of a new, Cantina-sponsored meetup, Emerging Business Technology. The first free event has been scheduled: Native and HTML5-based mobile: strategies for mobile app development.

Cantina is pleased to announce its 2012 Mobile and Emerging Technology Planning Guide: Developing an Enterprise Approach to the Multichannel Customer. The guide was written by Cantina’s principle consultants and strategists who have years of experience helping clients leverage the leading edge of technology to extend competitive advantages: Matt [...]

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 [...]

As noted previously, working in-browser when creating an App Cloud app is hugely useful as turn-around time is faster and the development tools are much better. While creating our first app we also created a tool called the App Cloud Emulator which further supports in-browser development. Main features [...]

Earlier this month we attended the Brightcove App Cloud Developer Kitchen. We were grateful and excited for this opportunity to get hands-on with the platform (currently in private beta), kicked the tires and build an app. In this post I’ll relay our experiences with the platform and show [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]