There's no division, it's just about entertainment

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There's a heating debate between how to get money from mobile games on an so-called emerging market like Indonesia. Some argue that smartphone is owned by the 'rich' and likely to pay your game via credit cards. Some argue that Java ME based phone have higher penetration than smartphone, with assist of mobile carrier billing, Java ME based game can monetise better than fancy iOS/Android Games. It comes to my head several weeks until I realise that there's no difference between them. Let me elaborate more on this post.

Disclaimer: I'd like to put disclaimer, that this post is not about any platform or platform war. It's just a matter of opinion of an online game developer that already had monetise in Indonesian market for 2 years starting 2007-2009 and started my new venture to mobile game recently this year, so I do a lot of behaviour research. This post is my own opinion from that.

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My experience with AHA Mobile Broadband

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I don't usually post about Indonesian mobile operators since all of them sucks the big time. I have used almost all of them. Yes, in Indonesia, it's easy for you to switch operators with new simcard only costs nominal fee and the flexibility of choosing CDMA or GSM. I'll be posting how I use AHA and how it helped me big time on past 3 months.

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Unix war on Mobile and Epic win for Game Developers

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Continuing from my old post about Unix on Mobile. Looks like the war hasn't ended (yet) since then. The war is more fierce until now. Smartphones except those powered by Windows Phone are all created by at least one of these OSes: iOS, Android, Meego, or the chinese unicom's Wo Phone. The fact that all of them are both unix or unix-clone is a big win for native game developers.

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OpenGL is important for Mobile Developers (1)

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The use of advanced technologies increase along the time. People has made apps that push the limit of device and programmers' skill. One kind of an apps that catches my attention is Augmented Reality as highlighted by Rama Mamuya from Daily Social when I was attending Bancakan+SparxUp seminar at UC UGM, Yogyakarta Indonesia. Thes remarks the need of 3D realtime rendering technologies combined with 'real' situation like location and camera. In mobile, this can be implemented using OpenGL ES.

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How much do you spend on each platform?

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Mobile Development is such a hype nowadays. Frow West to East, everybody wants to create an app and publish it for free or paid. It's not free to develop and publish your apps. In this blog, I'll give you an illustration on how much the capital do you spend as a single developer. The cost might not exact, but I try to be as close as I can.

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Computer and Modern Day Alchemist

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In the past we knew alchemists. A bunch of people who understood the way of how matter works, how to construct it and how to deconstruct it to other matters. Alchemist usually work solitary on closed chamber. In there, they will construct gold from metal. 

Old Skool Alchemists

Alchemists were known as people who understand deeper than common people about how the world works. In the past, there were no separations or specialisations among science. Alchemists usually understand astronomy, physics, math, chemistry, or even surgery. In the past an alchemist could be a surgeon and a dentist in the same time.

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