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Google Sites and Google Apps Scripts Integrates, Now Allows Building Custom Applications
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Microsoft is officially bringing the Kinect motion-controlled sensor to the PC. The move could help make consumers excited about Windows again.
It's a smart move -- Kinect is the most innovative consumer product Microsoft has created in eons, and hackers were already creating weird and wonderful PC applications that could use it. Instead of fighting them, Microsoft is enabling them.
This spring, the company will release a software development kit (SDK) for hobbyists and non-commercial PC apps to use Kinect. Later, Microsoft will allow commercial developers to create apps for it as well, but it's still working out the details.
The move could rekindle consumer interest in Windows, which is feeling sales pressure from tablet computers running non-Microsoft operating systems like Apple's iPad and Google's Android. While Kinect is a decent little business for Microsoft -- it probably booked more than $1 billion in sales during the holidays -- Windows is still the company's biggest and most profitable product by far, earning about $13 billion on about $19 billion in revenue over the last year.
Now, don't miss: The Story Behind Kinect, Microsoft's Newest Billion-Dollar Business.
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For a few - a few - it's been a path to nearly instant wealth. But for most writing applications for mobile devices has been a break-even proposition at best. And while Loic Le Meur - the founder and CEO of Seesmic, maker of one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook applications - is bullish on the future, he says today's numbers are really quite sobering. The odds against making a reasonable income from a mobile application, let alone striking it rich, are nearly impossible to overcome. Consider:
The problem may not be the app itself, but marketing - or lack of it. Without a marketing budget it remains hidden among the more than 30,000 others in the app store. The skills to develop an app are far different from those needed to sell it.
--Dino Londis
Is There Gold in Writing Applications for Mobile Devices?
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