There were so many announcements this month, that the tech press kept whining about the jetlags and whole difficulty of travelling around the globe. And we’re not talking about the small announcements and launches – all of the three IT giants had something new for the ever growing personal computing market. October was huge for us as mobile developers, because we are the ones who will bring to life our future projects for these platforms.
This column is not about the reviews and mobile platforms news, it’s about catching up and telling about interesting events on the IT landscape.
- Windows 8 and Windows RT launch
- Apple event: iMac, Pros, MacMini, new iPads
- Google Nexus event
Windows 8 / RT launch
We really like Microsoft’s latest design language (#dontsaymetro), and we’ve been trying windows 8 out for almost 2 months now. There are UX details that many of the users might find questionable, but once you got used to Win8, it’s suddenly a pretty good operating system.
Both engadget and the verge stated that despite some unintuitiveness, the OS itself is very compelling once you passed the learning curve.
From the development side, we really like the ability to easily port your Windows 8 solutions to Windows RT and Windows Phone 8, because of the shared kernel. We will aim to write an article about the advantages and flexibility Microsoft gives us with the shared kernel approach, since we have Windows Phone developers in house, but you can already have some examples and tutorials at dev.windows.com
Surface RT announcement
Engadget rated the tablet pretty good as well, with less criticism. Overall media reception was pretty good, except NY Times and Gizmodo, who crushed the tablet.
Apple Announcements
Google announced the next Nexus lineup, along with Jelly Bean 4.2
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Tardigrade Consulting 