Googarola
Victor Martin and Issam Azmeh are work experience students at Future Workshops over Summer 2011. One of their tasks is to keep us updated on the latest in the mobile technology market.
Recently Google bought Motorola for over 12 billion dollars. The deal is controversial, as the reasons for it are not clear - will it drive more revenue, or put Google in a bad situation long term?
Here are summaries of our favourite articles on the deal.
FW Office 2.0
We have moved to new premises on the snappily named Fashion Street in London's East End.
MWC: Notes on the major players
I attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week to support our client The GSMA. Here are some of my notes on how the week went for some of the mobile industries' major players.
Rapha Rendezvous
Lovely marketing from Rapha for our Rendezvous iPhone App.
Where the is Fausto Coppi?
We're Hiring #2
Future Workshops is hiring again! We are looking for a enthusiastic project manager who would love to be part of an exciting, growing company.
#1 Sports App, and .net feature
Its been a fantastic and exciting week at Future Workshops!
Complementary Apps
Back in December 2009 Amanda Rose, organiser of the worldwide Twestival event, was looking ways in which to help people connect at the offline event. Having attended the event previously, the Future Workshops crew thought we could bring something unique, fun and interesting to the table. Hence, the Twestival iPhone App (iTunes link) was born!
There are a number of Fully Blown Twitter Clients on the App Store today (Tweetie 2 is a favourite for us - such clean design!), so we decided to stand on the shoulders of giants by creating a Complementary App.
Cocoa Craftspeople
Future Workshops is hiring! We are an exciting company, looking to take Apps to the next level. If you think you've got what it takes read on below...
The Cloud
At Future Workshops we are huge fans of cloud based services and storage. We use Dropbox as a distributed file system, Basecamp to manage projects, Beanstalk as a code repository, and most importantly Google Apps to manage our email, calendar and contacts.
With the assumption that Apple expects people to own both a Tablet, an iPhone and a desktop or laptop computer, we assert that moving iTunes to the cloud is now an urgent necessity.
The Tablet
Speculation and rumour about Apple's tablet have reached feverish levels over the last few weeks.
Parker's iPhone App Design
Parker's Car Pricing Guide (iTunes link) was a Top Ten Grossing App - and Top Twenty Paid App - in the UK App Store. It was also featured by Apple on iTunes - giving the App a very healthy sales boost!
We believe healthy portion of this success was due to the simple, polished, fun design of the App. I hope that others can benefit or take inspiration from the process Future Workshops follows, detailed below.
Double Down iPhone, Double Down Objective-C
Double down is a phrase coined in BlackJack, however Jason Calacanis has long been applying it to the tech world. Essentially it involves doubling your bets if you hold a good hand.