COMP 446 / ELEC 446
Mobile Device Applications
Scott Cutler
Professor in the Practice of Computer Technology
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
cutler@rice.edu
11/07/12
Wednesday 2-3:30, DH 1046
Agenda
 Events of the Week
 Final Project Status
 Deployment to Devices
 Schedule for individual project meetings
 Group Debate
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Android vs. Windows Phone vs. iOS
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Events of the Week
 Lucas: Disney might have been Star Wars' only hope
 ARM unveils 64-bit Cortex-A50 server processors
 AT&T offers free cloud storage for iOS and Android
 Microsoft Sued Over Windows 8 Tiles
 Apple wins patent on iOS maps integration
 Google Maps, Street View Expand to Grand Canyon and Beyond
 Apple: 3M iPads sold over the weekend
 Apple unlikely to approve Google Maps app for iOS, report says
 Nearly 1 in 4 Computers Sold Last Quarter Were Tablets
 100,000 Android Apps Pose Security Risk
 What Developers Took Away From Microsoft Build
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ELEC / COMP 694 – Spring 2012
Future Personal Computing Technology
 How to be a Chief Technology Officer
 Wednesdays 9:30 – 11:00, 3CR
 Each student gets to pick a personal computing technology topic
which they will learn over a 5 or 6 week period
 Weekly one-on-one meetings to rapidly learn topic
 Session with presentation expert
 Student presents topic to the class
 Course gets very high ratings based on unique approach and current
topics.
 Desired class size of 10. Hard limit of 11.
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Class Offsite (optional)
 Monday, December 3
 Likely time 12:00 – 4:00 including lunch
 The Woodlands, TX
 Details to follow
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Final Project Timeline
9/19
9/26
10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24 10/31 11/7
11/14 11/21 11/28 12/5
- #4 10/05
- #5 10/12
- FP Topic 10/10
- #6 10/19
- FP Proposal 10/23
- Major Feature 11/2
- Individual Meetings 11/14
- Final Presentation 11/28
- Documentation due Finals Day
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Loaned iOS Devices
 iPhone 3G
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Alex Chiu
 iPhone 4
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Austin Witt
 iPhone 3Gs
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Gbenga Badipe
 iPhone 4s

Lingo Dai
 Mac Mini now with Joan Chao
 Still working with Apple to ease deployment
 Do not create additional profiles
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Week 13 (11/14/12)
 Individual meetings November 13, 14, instead of class
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Demonstration of final project in its current state
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I Do NOT expect a fully working project, just status update
Tuesday
10:35
11:00
11:25
11:50
12:40
1:05
1:30
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Gbenga Badipe
Heaven Chen
Frank Salinas
Bill Robertson
Lingo Dai
Joan Chen
Alex Chiu
Wednesday
10:30
10:55
11:20
2:15
2:40
3:05
3:30
3:55
4:20
Abdul Nimeri
Matthew Zhao
Weibo He
Victor Acuna
Austin Witt
Tyler Siegert
Ryan Artecona
Peter Chang
Sahil Hingorani
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Teams
Android
Windows Phone
Apple
 Victor Acuna
 Heaven Chen
 Bill Robertson
 Ryan Artecona
 Alex Chiu
 Frank Salinas
 Gbenga Badipe
 Lingo Dai
 Tyler Siegert
 Peter Chang
 Weibo He
 Austin Witt
 Joan Chao
 Sahil Hingorani
 Matthew Zhao
 Abdul Nimeri
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Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone
 Market Share predictions 5 years out
 Cloud Strategy
 Microsoft
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Does Microsoft have an option to fail
Are they trying enough? Too much?
 Google
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Will the numbers continue to dominate
Will achieve the polish of iOS
 Apple
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Can they stay ahead of the pack
Is there room left to innovate post Steve Jobs
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