Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Citizen Developers Love Creating Apps: Survey

  While professional developers and engineers may never be able to shake the curmudgeonly reputation they’ve earned, a new study suggests citizen developers are more than happy to pick up the slack…
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  Trump Appoints Net Neutrality Enemy to Chair FCC

  [caption id="attachment_139412" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Ajit Pai now chairs the FCC, and he hates net neutrality.[/caption] Among the many appointments President Donald Trump must make i…
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  UX Designers in High Demand, Crucial to AI/VR

  [caption id="attachment_139378" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] UX Designers[/caption] In the tech sector, design can sometimes feel like an afterthought. But as we concern ourselves so fervent…
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  App Economy Changing: Retail and Video Explode

  [caption id="attachment_127167" align="aligncenter" width="500"] App economy set to blossom in 2017.[/caption] In its 2016 retrospective, App Annie makes some interesting points about the state o…
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  Twitter Sells Fabric to Google in Farewell to Devs

  [caption id="attachment_139340" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Google Fabric via Twitter[/caption] In a move that surpised just about everyone, Twitter has sold its developer-facing suite of t…
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  Should Pro Users Complain About MacBook Pro?

  [caption id="attachment_137961" align="aligncenter" width="880"] MacBook Pro Touch Bar[/caption] If the latest rumors turn out to be true, the next version of the MacBook Pro will actually be att…
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  China Gets App Store Oversight. Are We Next?

  [caption id="attachment_138519" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Mac App Store WWDC 2016[/caption] The Cyberspace Administration of China, which bills itself as the “office of the central leadin…
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  How to Start Developing for the Nintendo Switch

  [caption id="attachment_139249" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Nintendo Switch[/caption] Nintendo has finally announced its next-generation console, the Switch. On the heels of the success of…
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  Net Neutrality in Trouble Once Trump Takes Office?

  When Donald Trump takes office later in January, so will a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair. Following protocol, current chair Tom Wheeler will cede his position on the day of Tr…
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  Apple Getting Serious About Car Automation

  [caption id="attachment_139213" align="aligncenter" width="1783"] Apple WWDC 2016[/caption] With Apple’s "Project Titan" apparently pivoting from creation of a full automobile to automotive autom…