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Is Proprietary Or Open Source Better For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

Many people continue to use his computer systems in an open source world despite their distinct proprietary nature. Some people would rather use the Barnes & Noble Nook over Amazon Kindle simply because the former uses the ePub format for its books, which is open source. Just like Apple’s Mac and iPhone.

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Apple vs Microsoft: Tablet Market Clash between iPad and Windows 8

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Besides Google Android, the tablet king Apple iPad is about to get a taut rival in Windows 8. Maybe, Google’s Android might not have overcome Apple iPad in number of products sold. But the open source firmware enjoys a clear edge over iPad in escalating popularity. So, who will be Windows 8’s competitor in the Apple side?

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Can Open Source be Helpful to Extend Apple’s Home Automation to More Devices?

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However, choosing this product (with security aspect) over Google, Apple, or Amazon is a bit too much. Times when privacy can only be considered as a joke, Apple is offering something that comes with a home assistant that is fully privacy-oriented. Also Read: Apple HomePod: Apple’s Move Towards Smart Speakers.

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The Feud Over Apple Privacy Label – Tech-Giants Don’t Like It

Tweaklibrary

Recently Apple did something really out of the box and something that we all wanted as users – Apple made Transparency mandatory. Apple did it in a somewhat exciting fashion – Apple Privacy Labels. Also Read: Can Open Source be Helpful to Extend Apple’s Home Automation to More Devices? What do we Do?

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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

SocialFish

Libre Office is open-sourced by its huge community that works on bringing useful updates and assets daily. That means that its source-code editable and can be changed for free. Completely free and open-sourced. No Apple support. It’s an open-source tool. Fully-compatible with Office Suite.

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Top programming Languages In High Demand At Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other MNCs

BeingOptimist

Swift is a business programming language invented by Apple in 2014 to compete with Microsoft. This is an open-source language programming and is extremely easy to learn and requires you to have very few coding skills in comparison to other programming languages.

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How to create mobile-friendly content with Google’s AMP

Socialmedia.biz

AMP is a Google-backed open-source project that launched last February as an open standard to make it easier for any publisher to have pages load quickly on mobile devices. In an increasingly mobile world, AMP is a tool or open source framework that speeds up browsing when you’re using a mobile phone or or tablets.

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