As I wrote last October, I am personally committed to openness and transparency regarding issues concerning our pricing and licensing. We care deeply about providing you with outstanding value and high quality products at competitive prices. This has been our commitment from the day Nolan and I started this company. One of our core company values is to “Enable Customer Success,” and we are honored each and every day to empower you to deliver transformative mobile experiences to the world.

Imagine that you’re a Korean who just moved to Australia for work. Missing the cuisine of your home country, you want nothing more than an authentic bowl of bibimbap, and you don’t know where to find it. Using Appcelerator’s ACS, mobile developers Jerry Chang, Ken You and the team from Native Signal created a location-based social app “Urimalo” as a nexus of local and culture-specific information, allowing Korean migrants around the world – and eventually, folks of any culture – to find their just-right combination of the local and the familiar while in a brand new place, all in their native tongue.

The cloud is truly redefining the way we work and play. In it we store our music, our pictures and movies, and our enterprise data. From it we access all of that information from laptops, tablets, smartphones, cars and TVs anywhere anytime. Of course, the mobile revolution is also delivering its fair share of transformation, and like peanut butter and bread, the two are significantly better together.

Since launching Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) in April, we've seen great excitement and adoption within our developer community. Innovative photo, video, chat, social networking, weather, and many other types of apps have been created utilizing ACS as their powerful, easy to use server backend!

Apple's most recent announcements at WWDC about new features to be included in iOS 6 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion show their commitment to adding cloud-enabled services to their entire platform. By making features such as social integration with Facebook and photo sharing part of the operating system, and allowing accessibility through a consistent API, developers can now more easily provide a better end-user experience.

Traditional mobile applications are simple; typically focused on a single function (like find me a good food truck to grab lunch) or even multiple functions in order to accomplish a goal (find me a good food truck for lunch and invite a few of my close by friends). This action often occurs only when the app is open on the device. Once information has been delivered, that action is no longer required. The notable exception to this rule is content consumption applications like the Netflix app that maintains the last action preformed within the app, no matter the device.