iOS

Nov 03

Will Siri Slay Google?

Eric Jackson over at Forbes thinks it will.  As a mobile developer we obviously pay attention to the smartphone war, even though we use Unity and therefore can release our games on multiple platforms, but this piece is talking about a much bigger fight than just Android and iOS.  The key points Eric seems to make are these: first of all Siri is hard to beat.  Right now Siri is the  best voice recognition system on the planet and the first one to really work. Read more »

Nov 02

Is the App Store a Casino?

I read an interesting article from Fast Company today.  Chris Stevens--one of the guys behind Alice for the iPad--has a new book out called Appillionaires, and he summarized the main point of the book which is "the App Store is a casino".  The trouble with this analogy is that it's bad. Read more »