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It’s February 15th, 2013, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week we’re looking at how emulators can supplant native apps for emerging platforms.

Amazon Web Services is a major Infrastructure as a Service provider that provides elastic capacity, quick deployment and automation for applications without using capital expenditure. Within AWS are several infrastructure building blocks, including EC2, S3, and RDS, to name a few. Click here for a full list of AWS products for mobile application hosting.

This is an excerpt of the first chapter of “How To Make An App: iOS Edition“, a new eBook released by Kinvey.

It’s January 25th, 2013, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week we’re looking at the impending launch of Blackberry 10, some hints at iOS’s future from Apple’s earnings call, and tablet adoption in the enterprise.

It’s January 18th, 2013, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week, we’re going to review advice and services that can help you create better applications and market them more effectively.

There are a handful of “__ as a service” (*aaS) providers comprising the mobile and cloud computing ecosystems today. Although individually each company may be unique, collectively they share a common goal:  accelerating the rate of innovation by removing costs and barriers to technology deployment. IaaS is perhaps the most fundamental of the categories. Before diving into our guide, let’s first review IaaS basics:

It’s January 10th, 2013, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week, we’re looking at a couple of app-related product announcements out of CES this week, and predictions of iOS and Android sales over 2013.

It’s December 21st, 2012, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week, we’re looking at app discoverability and if purchasing high rankings in the App Store is a viable strategy, Android security issues, and the new app ecosystem around the Raspberry Pi device.

“We are living in the Post-PC era.” That sentence — in quotes — comes up over 14,000 times in a Google search. So what are so many people writing about? They are writing about a time when many computing tasks — such as staying in touch with friends, doing online research, shopping, and playing games — no longer require a laptop or desktop computer. Not only can these activities now be done “on the go” with a smartphone or tablet, but they can also be done in new ways that enrich the experience.

It’s December 14th, 2012, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. This week, we’re reviewing news and services for developing and marketing iOS applications, the challenges SeatGeek encountered developing their iPhone app, and the new Google Maps app for iOS.