Taken together, Android and iOS took a 93.2% global marketshare in the quarter — underlining why developers opt to support these two platform first and foremost, and generally require incentives to expend effort elsewhere.
A new survey of 1,500 corporate hiring managers by Toptal, a network of freelance software developers, designers and finance experts, underlines how much attitudes in corporate America have changed toward freelancers.
This underlines why so many developers continue to build apps for iOS as a first priority, with Android coming after — despite Android's dominance of global smartphone marketshare.
Recent trends prove just how attractive the gaming community has become for cybercriminals and how lucrative the game-hacking business is becoming, which underlines the importance for developers, manufacturers and gamers alike to take game security more seriously.
We underline the role of Libre software development communities and analyze incentives for both kernel and obscure developers.
The fact that there are three events over several weeks instead of one underlines that this is about building relationships with developers rather than wowing the world.
Persuading Capcom to develop games for the Xbox 360 underlines the success Microsoft has had recently in attracting Japanese developers who had shied away from the American console.
All of this underlines the larger point here, which is that opening up search to outside developers is a powerful way to gain search query share.
