Articles associated with topic: os programming

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  Mac App Store Under Renewed Scrutiny Ahead of Mojave Launch

  Activity on the Mac App Store is raising eyebrows at exactly the wrong time. As Apple prepares to launch macOS Mojave this Fall, it's also prepping a new Mac App Store. This redesign, which echoes the iOS App S…
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  Apple Watch, Google's Wear OS, Fitbit: Fall's Big Smartwatch Contenders

  A funny thing happened on the way to Apple dominating the wearables market: Other smartwatch manufacturers decided to pick up their game. Google/Wear OS For example, Google is now dedicated to boosting the qual…
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  Google Preparing Fuchsia to Replace Android, Chrome: Report

  A new report from Bloomberg asserts Fuchsia, Google’s much-rumored operating system, is indeed meant as a replacement for Android. Though one source shades Fuchsia as a “senior engineer retention project,” othe…
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  Steve Jobs Imagined This Critical App Store Feature... in 1983

  The first time the world saw the Mac App Store was 2011. That was nearly three years after the iOS App Store launched. But as it turns out, the "App Store" concept dates back to at least 1983. At the 1983 Inter…
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  Inside Amazon: How Liu Engineered Her Own Path

  Amazon's Xiaoxu Liu shares what it's like to work inside one of the most influential companies of all time Xiaoxu Liu, Software Development Manager at Amazon Imagine a job where you felt invigorated on a daily…
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  Is a Big Shift from Fitness Trackers to Smartwatches Underway?

  For years, wrist-based fitness trackers seemed to hold their own against smartwatches, at least in terms of market share. But according to new data from research firm IDC, it seems that smartwatches are beginni…
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  WWDC 2017: What You Should Expect

  [caption id="attachment_139792" align="aligncenter" width="2597"] Apple WWDC 2015[/caption] WWDC will dominate tech news next week, and there’s a lot of uncertainty about what Apple may do. With Google and othe…
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  Android Wear is in Trouble: Study

  [caption id="attachment_141663" align="aligncenter" width="6000"] Android Wear at Google IO[/caption] Things are not looking good for Android Wear. In a recent study from Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s Tizen has…
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  Swift 4.0 Still Won't Shake Objective-C

  [caption id="attachment_137468" align="aligncenter" width="2357"] Swift 4.0 is coming.[/caption] As programming-language iteration goes, Swift is moving at a fairly rapid pace. Less than three years after Apple…
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  Google's 'Fuchsia' Is a Grab-Bag of Languages

  [caption id="attachment_139426" align="aligncenter" width="3248"] 'Fuchsia' is a Google-made mix of Android and Chrome (but also neither of them)[/caption] Google’s next big thing is being developed underneath…
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  Apple Watch: Huge Success or Miserable Fail?

  For Apple, being the largest company in the world (by market cap) comes with its own unique problems. Chief among them: all successes must be outsized. Take the case of the Apple Watch. Although Apple has so fa…
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  Innovation During Times of Change at The Walt Disney Company

  Meet three Disney technologists: Deni, Lead Application Architect; Andy, Director, Real-Time Media Engineering; and Crystal, Partner Operations Manager. All three employees have been with The Walt Disney Compan…