Month: July 2015

5 ways that Apple Do to Please Developers

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Many people may wonder why Apple can be so appealing; even though Android has mastered the market, but it seems that Apple can always find a unique place in its customers’ heart. This is maybe because Apple is very smart on seeing what people want, especially what developer wants in a gadget. Moreover, through continuously enhancing its products and features, Apple is almost never fail in providing better ways for developers or web developers to build their software conveniently in Apple. Below article will provide you with information of things that Apple does to please developers.

Swift has Better Error Handling in New Version

According to Stack Overflow’s most recent developer survey, Swift is quite popular among developers today after Objective C, furthermore to convince developers to start using swift, Apple introduced version 2.0 to maximize the work of Swift. This new version improve better performance, such as, a new error handling model, and the ability to more easily target older versions of iOS. In order to, improve its consistency, Apple also makes changes to the syntax.

Swift will be open-source and ported to other OSes

Apple seems want to increase swift’s popularity as it doesn’t only include language improvements. In fact, Apple also plans to make Swift source code available under an open source license later this year. Swift and standard library will be included as the source code. Furthermore, Apple promised that they encourage for any community contributions. At launch, Apple intends to contribute ports for OS X, iOS, and Linux. Moreover, Apple also attempts to the availability of its new streaming service Apple music on Android.

Upgraded Xcode

Beside Swift, Apple also made a beta of the Xcode 7 developer platform available for download. The Xcode 7 developer platform includes Apple’s IDE (integrated development environment), a swift 2 compiler, and the latest SDKs for OS X, iOS, and watchOS. Developers can use a feature that helps to convert to Swift 1.2 code to the new version. Apple also provides other improvements includes energy usage tracking on a per-process basis, user interface recording and a streamlined mechanism for testing on physical devices, even though the development of Objective-C developers are still continued to be developed.

Now Developers can Build Native Apps for Apple Watch

The biggest improvement is the ability to build apps that run natively on the smartwatch, instead of having to rely on an iPhone. Moreover, developers will also be able to integrate key hardware features like the Digital Crown, heart rate sensor, accelerometer, and microphone in their apps using an upgraded version of the Watchkit framework. The new framework for clock kit will let users post information on the clock face. The iOS 9 SDK beta including WatchKit for watchOS2 is available for download from Apple’s developer website.

Renovated Tools for Fitness and Home Automation Apps

There are many upgraded versions of Apple’s other frameworks. One of them is a new HomeKit profiles for motorized windows and shades, motion sensors, and home security systems. Its data point is able for storing information on reproductive health, UV exposure, and water intake. Features, such as, Gameplaykit and Replaykit can be very useful to make better games and add video recording features.

What Facebook Has Planned for the Next Three Years

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It seems that everyone these days knows Facebook, with billions of users Facebook still becomes social media services leader among others popular social media, such as, Instagram, Twitter, QQ and etc which also gain so many popularity. However, after so many years of success, Facebook keep exploring it features to be on top among its counterparts, as new social media always occurs with different features and function. This is why Facebook need to arrange another good strategy for the future of Facebook and here are what Facebook has planned for the next three years ahead.

  • Turning Its Popular Apps into Profits

These days, Facebook Company has widened its technology communication business into so many popular apps, such as WhatsApp, Mesenger and Instagram. With millions of users in every launched app, Facebook is challenged to think about how to get more profits from those popular chat apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger which can similarly make money from their devoted user as these two kinds of app have become more attractive since they provide with voice calling, taking on the mobile carriers.

  • Oculus

Next year, is where Facebook will launch its inaugural headset. What people want to know is how quick this oculus project can pays off its $2 billion acquisition of the company. Moreover, Oculus success will not only value from how many headset it can sell, but also from its platform, such as, how far its platform can win developers heart rather than its rival, Sony’s Morpheus. In fact, people expect to see more than just video games that will be provided in Oculus, varies platforms, such as entertainment content and communication platform, will be next Facebook’s challenge on Oculus.

  • Advertising Revenue

In the next, video ads and “instant article” which the company’s just launched system of embedding other publisher’s articles on the site along with ads will become some ways out for growing advertising revenue. Moreover, Facebook also considers on putting an ad exchange, to enable Facebook to automate the sales process of other publishers’ ads.

  • Expanding Internet Access

Because of massive penetration of Facebook, with 1.44 billion monthly active users, Facebook constantly experiences reduction. Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg has invested his vision for expanding Internet access to the rest of the world, with drones and satellites, among the things. Although this kind of investment may take long term for fruition market of Facebook, but Zuckerberg considers the long wait of investment is worth it.

The Rise of Video Marketing on Social and How It Affects Your Business

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How many Social media serves you with video features now days? It is countless, right? This is because what is called as content currently is not limited on articles only. Besides, video provides you with so many advantages that other kind of contents cannot do. In fact, this new trend can provide good business opportunity for online entrepreneur and SEO services as they can market their services, products and content on video platform and social media.  Wondering why video content is good for your business? Below are the reasons.

 

  1. The Library of Content: YouTube

The first thought of video content which comes across your mind must be YouTube, since YouTube is a granddaddy of video online. In fact, there is 300 hours’ worth of video content are pushed to YouTube every minute which makes YouTube becomes a huge library of video’s content. This helped many people to launch their career and personal brand.

  1. Smart, shareable &personal: Facebook  Video

If YouTube is already satisfying, why waste your time to look on other video content platform? The reason is due to YouTube enormous capacity that caused fierce competition videos on YouTube, where every video is struggling to be watched makes it’s going to get noisy. While Facebook is the best way to reach any fans at scale since they are having an enormous amount of targetable consumer data. However, the right idea of uploading the video natively in Facebook is not by copying and pasting a link to YouTube on Your Facebook, this is because when you upload a video on Facebook, the chances for your video is being watched by community are much higher than just copying a link. It makes Google and Facebook now become a good rival.

  1. Snapchat Video is the Hottie at the Gym: It’s All About Attention

Snapchat users now have growth as more than 60% of teenagers and adult smartphone users are Snapchatters in US. Moreover, it’s the only platform which you can draw creative on top of the video and when someone takes a screenshot of a snap, the sender will be infomed with a notification that also can tell the sender the amount of the screenshots taken. In addition, Snapchat feature permits users to acquire content from media companies which makes a very aggressive place with the overall user interface of the app.