Arduinos, Androids, and iPhones, Oh My!

With the meteoric rise of mobile device proliferation, the post-PC moniker has made its way into the tech world’s vocabulary. I am a big proponent of technology shifts, but I am also old enough to have lived through three major computing revolutions (the shift from mainframes to PCs, the rise of the Internet, and the shift from PCs to mobile devices) and know that change isn’t as fast as people say it is. Until mobile applications can be developed on mobile devices the way PC applications can be developed on PCs, a Linux, Windows, or Mac computer will be a central requirement for developing mobile apps. The same holds true for Arduino programming.

That said, the times are indeed a-changing. Microsoft ...

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