Though Orlando's emerging downtown residential scene isn't aimed at the masses, developers say their approach meets the needs of an emerging group of young renters looking for lifestyle and entertainment.
That's two boxes ticked, but the third box will be a lot harder to tick as it will mean attracting a critical mass of developers: at Apple's WWDC held on June 2nd 2014, Tim Cook stated that there were 9 million registered Apple developers.
High definition affordable home VR with masses of developer support certainly does.
A combination of strict planning laws restricting developments on so called "rustic" land (their equivalent of green belt), none of the mass Spanish developers getting a toehold and the island's sleepy reputation has prevented an oversupply of property.
Therefore, the only markets where Tizen has a hope of attracting a critical mass of developers are those where Android and iOS have low market shares, and there are very few of those.
Li says the promise is there, but it won't happen right away because there needs to be a critical mass of developers using serverless methodologies first.
Salesforce.com anticipates that the acquisition will help it attract and serve a critical mass of developers, customers and ISVs wanting an open, scalable and trusted Cloud 2 platform.
As we saw with Apple's early smartphone App Store, congregating a critical mass of developers for a new type of devices can pay off big time in the long-run.
Before it reaches a critical mass of developers and users, however, emojidex has to carve a niche for itself against rivals like Imoji, which lets people make customized emojis and stickers and recently launched an SDK for app developers, and "stickers-as-a-service" startup PicoCandy.
Meanwhile, casual mass-market developers are finding a tougher competitive landscape.
