| July 11, 2013 | | InCITE | Your weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT | | Netflix's cloud chief said that the company's internal IT strategy is "almost more radical" than what the company has done in the cloud. | | Containerization and dual-persona solutions are attracting a lot of attention as a way to enabled BYOD with little to no device management. But overly aggressive containerization blows all the advantages of BYOD in the first place. | | Unsustainable services need to generate cash, or they get shut down. That means that Twitter has to limit API access to third-party apps, Google can't subsidize a feed aggregator, and LinkedIn is restricting access to information about job changes. So what can a developer do? | | If the Microsoft reorg rumors are accurate, consumer leaders would get new power at the company. | | Microsoft wants everyone to use SkyDrive to manage their Windows 8 files. Not likely, given how the app is implemented in Windows 8.1. Here's why. | | IT has a key role to play in organizations when it comes to fostering innovation and battling disruptive forces in your industry. Forrester's James McQuivey talks to CITEworld. | | Microsoft is introducing a 3D printing platform as part of Windows 8.1, and promises to stock the printers in its stores as well. | | When a new product category emerges, platforms tend to work and look similar. But as they mature, differentiation sets in, and it requires more and more work to develop cross platform, explains Steven Sinofsky in a blog post. | | With 43 million users and growth among paying business customers, YouSendIt decides to pivot. | | Dropbox succeeds by focusing narrowly on one complicated, important problem -- giving you access to the correct, up-to-date version of your stuff, no matter what device or platform you're using. Now, it's applying that same strategy to developers. | | | |
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