Because the stacks on each platform are so different, you will usually need to hire extra devs with experience on the opposite platform, and then you still need to make a functional app that can garner users and build a following.
Serve as conduits to their academic colleagues, publicizing the resources, garnering user responses, and keeping colleagues informed of project developments.
Launched earlier this year, a sustained marketing campaign is necessary to garner the user numbers to compete with longer established brands.
Other big-budget MMOs - 2006's Auto Assault, notably - can't even garner enough users to keep running for more than a year.
The startup managed to garner 65,000 users for its web/mobile platform for private photos.
Facebook and Twitter make gobs of revenue from ads pushing high grossing apps that plow their revenues back into garnering more users.
Mind Candy launched the subscription kids game Moshi Monsters in 2008, garnering 80 million users at its peak, and franchised into toys, magazines, music and a movie.
However, analyst Bryan Ma of research firm IDC told the BBC that Apple was likely to garner a smaller user base in China compared to competitors like AliPay and Tencent's WeChat Payment.
These files are released to garner feedback from users, and certain caveats apply.
Like the main Web site, which promotes the fact that it garners millions of user comments each month, HuffPost Live says it will encourage conversation among viewers.
