How is Porting Applications to the Intel AppUp Center Like Two Famous Starship Captains?

Bob Duffy takes a look at how two different iPhone developers ported their games to AppUp for netbooks running Windows. Duffy notes that during the two methods are very different, both follow some common practices. One approach was bold, the other very deliberate. Duffy compares the two approaches to the leaderships styles of two famous starship captains: James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard.

I had the pleasure last month to collaborate with two accomplished developers on theirmethods for porting iPhone games to AppUpSM for netbooks running Windows. I wasvery impressed by the creativity and ingenuity of these ports while together itappears they follow some common practices to ensure a quality experience on anetbook. During very different these porting methods are both viable and I believerepresent the most likely scenarios for porting a mobile app to AppUpSM.