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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Inalign has been heavy into Microsoft technology for many years. There's not a Microsoft product that we haven't configured, customized, intefaced to or researched. So people are still shocked that I have an iPhone. How could I turn my back on Windows, and Verizon? We started using Microsoft technologies for the same reason I bought the iPhone-people (our clients) are using the technology, and they want us to build solutions around the technologies. It doesn't have to be a huge religious war between Apple and Microsoft. But the fact that our clients had the technologies was not the #1 reason. ...
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Gregg Crystal
Posted under: iPhone
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iPad
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Remember years ago when companies were just getting into the ‘internet’ and they started to put their URL into every ad? Print ads, TV ads, whatever, their URL would show up. Now, the change is to promote the iPhone app. Just another indicator that the iPhone is taking over the world. For example, Pizza Hut now has an ad on TV that promotes ordering pizza via their iPhone app. The ad doesn’t even talk about pizza or why their’s is better-it just promotes a new convienent way to order. (As a side note, some of Apple’s iPhone TV ads show ...
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Gregg Crystal
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Nothing special, just some links relating to the iPhone: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/welcome/ http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/mobileAppsTracking.html
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Gregg Crystal
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Two very interesting articles: AT&T exec implies iPhone exclusivity in U.S. ending iPhone close to overtaking BlackBerry as most popular smartphone The first bit of news is what everyone who is not on AT&T is waiting to hear-when can they get the iPhone on their favorite network (for me, it’s Verizon). The end of the exclusivity can only mean good things for the iPhone-more and more sales. For developers like us, it will mean more and more users that can download our iPhone applications. The second article is equally promising for the iPhone-it will take over BlackBerry someday. Not if, ...
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Gregg Crystal
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The iPhone is turning out to be one of the most popular gadgets out there. Everyone is asking about developing apps on the iPhone. There hasn’t been this much corporate buzz about a new development platform since SharePoint 2007 (and that buzz kindof fizzled). The iPhone’s success will be driven by the apps-it’s all about the software. Anyone who has the iPhone has a few favorite apps that love to talk about and share. Here’s a cool one that we found recently: you can access LogMeIn on the iPhone. Doesn’t everyone need that? https://secure.logmein.com/products/ignition/iphone/
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Gregg Crystal
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
It surprises alot of people when I tell them I have a Mac. We’ve been shouting about how wonderful Microsoft is (specifically .NET, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint, and CRM) that people assume we would never touch anything non-Microsoft. Truth is, we’ve spent far more time in non-Microsoft technologies than Microsoft. But few people want to hear about PowerBuilder so I rarely bring it up. The move to Microsoft was mainly business, not personal. As shocking as this sounds, most companies we do business with, want Microsoft. Also, many other development languages and platforms (PowerBuilder, ColdFusion) are dying off. Microsoft was ...
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Gregg Crystal
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