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# Blog posts tagged "App Stores"

#### [A shift to the Linux app store experience](https://canonical.com/blog/a-shift-to-the-linux-app-store-experience)

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be given to promoting

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Internet of Things

#### [Moving towards a software defined IoT business model](https://canonical.com/blog/moving-towards-a-software-defined-iot-business-model)

Fig 1: The journey to a software-defined business model The opportunity to capitalise on the internet of things is significant for many companies, but that doesn’t mean that it is a straightforward journey to success. Companies need to analyse their current business practices and evaluate where benefits can be gained – and for some this

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Internet of Things

#### [Appstores: The Path To IoT Revenue Post-Sale](https://canonical.com/blog/appstores-the-path-to-iot-revenue-post-sale)

As more enterprise embark on the path to IoT, they face 2 obstacles: monetization and security. A number of them will stay in an analysis paralysis mode, while their competitors and the rest of the market progress. What they’re really after is a secure path to growth that lets them experiment now without jeopardising their

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Internet of Things

#### [Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores](https://canonical.com/blog/building-a-future-proofed-iot-consumer-device-with-brand-stores)

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the consumer market wh

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Internet of Things

#### [The smartest industry 4.0 crane](https://canonical.com/blog/the-smartest-industry-4-0-crane)

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult them to be the leader of industry 4.0. If you don’t have an OT background, you aren’t relevant. I tend to disagree. We don’t need yet another CloudFoundry, Hadoop, Time

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Internet of Things

#### [The smart multi-personality vending machine](https://canonical.com/blog/the-smart-schizophrenic-vending-machine)

This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and saves public health care billions. Sell you a house. Be your bank. Anything is possible.   The vending machine we displayed at MWC 2017 was

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Internet of Things

#### [This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …](https://canonical.com/blog/this-elevator-catches-intruders-saves-lives-generates-money)

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like elevators. This blog post is about the smartest elevator demoed at MWC17 and the future of elevators with app stores. What happens if we add artificial intelligence to

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Internet of Things

#### [The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17](https://canonical.com/blog/the-cheapest-and-smartest-mobile-and-iot-base-station-of-mwc17)

How to solve the top telecom industry problems (declining revenues, spiralling costs, slow time to market) and revolutionise the wireless industry? Open Source Mobile and IoT Base Stations with App Stores. At MWC15 we presented the smartest top of the rack switch of the show. Many network experts did not believe that the cheapest server

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Internet of Things