Titanium 1.0: The “App for Building Apps”?

The less-than-golden age of mobile

For over a decade, mobile developers have toiled in the trenches — largely unseen and at times feeling somewhat misunderstood as we wrestled with new tools and technologies, trying to determine which ones are going to make it and which ones to avoid.

We’ve built the super “to-do” list apps, the “print my email via Bluetooth” apps, defined new gaming categories, and much nore — all the while enduring the pain of the rise (and fall) of new device launches and SDKs.

We’ve seen platforms that were so popular it seemed that they just could not fail all but disappear and new platforms emerge that challenged our way of thinking.

Through it all we have held on to the belief that mobile was important.

It’s kind of felt like buying that piece of property in Orlando before anyone else knew that Mr. Disney was…

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