#apps

Le gouvernement britannique ne veut pas d’#apps #mobiles
►http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/03/12/were-not-appy-not-appy-at-all

- government’s position is that native and hybrid apps are rarely justified
– make sure your service meets the Digital by Default Service Standard and it will work well on mobile devices (responsive HTML5)
– make your data and/or API available for re-use and you will stimulate the market if there is demand for native apps
The 5 questions civil servants should ask before contemplating asking for an exemption are:
1. Is our web service already designed to be responsive to different screen sizes? If not, why not?
2. What is the user need that only a native/hybrid app can meet?
3. Are there existing native/hybrid apps which already meet this user need?
4.. Is our service available to 3rd parties via an API or open data? If not, why not?
5. Does meeting this need justify the lifetime cost of a native or hybrid app?
We are not ‘banning’ apps outright.  For example, the NHS-funded ‘Change 4 Life’ healthy lifestyle apps rely on a persistent 24/7 presence on users’ mobiles to try to persuade people to eat and drink more healthily.
But we are backing open standards, in this case the Web.

via @karlpro

xkcd : App
►http://xkcd.com/1174

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#mobile #apps

#Minecraft grosses over $250 million in 2012, but which platform dominated? - Games Brief
http://www.gamesbrief.com/2013/01/minecraft-grosses-over-250-million-in-2012-but-which-platform-dominated

After platform fees, the estimated net revenue was $211 million, but this is where the open platforms of PC & Mac come into their own, representing more than half of Mojang’s revenue in 2012. #Mobile/tablet was only 14% of revenue.

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#appstore #jeux_vidéos

Get ready for the age of premium micropublishing
http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/03/get-ready-for-the-age-of-premium-micropublishing

►http://theperiodical.co

a content management system that would not only let people do a copy-paste publication immediately fit for the App Store, but also hook up to Stripe, to allow the micro-publishers to accept payments. The WordPress-like publishing platform will allow people to simultaneously push content to a website, a mobile website, and Apple’s Newsstand without any coding skills required.

#micropublication #cms #apps en réponse à ►http://seenthis.net/messages/99649

Je ne veux pas faire partie de votre putain d’écosystème - Framablog
http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2012/12/02/putain-ecosysteme

Libérer nos médias captifs du matériel ?

#Apple a fermé son service Mobile Me quasiment sans avertissement et détruit toutes les données que leurs clients payants hébergeaient chez eux.

#Adobe a fermé ses serveurs de DRM après un court préavis de 9 mois, en empêchant de fait quiconque de lire les livres pourtant achetés (#Amazon peut vider votre Kindle).

#Google a emmené Google Video au bûcher et lui a tiré une balle dans la tête — tout comme Buzz, Wave et qui sait combien d’autres produits.

#Microsoft a mis en place PlaysForSure, puis l’a laissé mourir, piégeant ainsi des millions de fichiers musicaux sur des appareils qui ne sont plus pris en charge.

#mobile #tablettes #services #apps

Apple Censors Drone War + Petition

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6750

Apple Inc., which has received over $9 million in Pentagon contracts in recent years, has rejected from its App Store, and therefore from all iPhones, a simple informative application.

Drones+ is an application that shows no depictions of the carnage of war and reveals no secret information. It simply adds a location to a map every time a drone strike is reported in the media and added to a database maintained by the U.K.’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

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#Apple #Drones+ #BIJ

Urban life: Open-air computers | Cities are turning into vast data factories | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21564998-cities-are-turning-vast-data-factories-open-air-computers

Potholes in Boston, for instance, are reported automatically if the drivers of the cars that hit them have an app called Street Bump on their smartphones. And, particularly in poorer countries, places without a well-planned infrastructure have the chance of a leap forward. Researchers from the SENSEable lab have been working with informal waste-collecting co-operatives in São Paulo whose members sift the city’s rubbish for things to sell or recycle. By attaching tags to the trash, the researchers have been able to help the co-operatives work out the best routes through the city so they can raise more money and save time and expense.

#mobile #apps #urbanisme #technolâtrie #effet_rebond

Apple, Summoning Its Mighty App-Squashing Powers, Spikes Drone Tracker - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/apple-summoning-its-mighty-appsquashing-powers-spikes-drone-tracker/261776
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Danger Room reports that an app that reports drone strikes to your phone has been rejected from Apple’s store for various reasons that seem to boil down to this one: Apple doesn’t like it.

#apple #concentration #presse #guerre #censure #apps

#iPhone and #Android #Apps Breach #Privacy - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html

[of 101] games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones— 56 transmitted the phone’s unique device ID to other companies without users’ awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone’s location in some way. Five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders.

#publicité