While Apple's 3.0 iPhone software will give consumers multiple new features, the update is primarily seen as a way for developers to create new and innovative applications for multiple types of users. Developers said Apple has really opened up the device ...Read More
It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office.
But the Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy animators who created "Garshasp, the Monster Slayer" have not ...Read More
An iPhone game developer has learned that hard way that one of the following will get your app banned: Publicly slamming the iPhone App Store, or gradually increasing prices until someone pays hundreds of dollars for a simple time waster.
I'm ...Read More
Last week at GDC 2010, I talked to quite a few iPhone developers, big and small, and they all told me exactly the same thing when I asked about the iPad: "No, I haven't gotten my hands on one yet." ...Read More
The iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 5 has been out since Apple announced the iPad and now the company has begun accepting applications for the devices April 3rd launch.
In a twist of good fortune, the deadline of March 27th for applications ...Read More
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing iPhone app. The iPhone app gives you comprehensive access to Bing's core services, including Bing maps and directions, as well as news and image search. Besides offering better stability and a ...Read More
Apple on Friday said it would begin accepting submissions for iPad apps next week to launch with the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
Apple's e-mail, provided to Wired.com by a developer who asked to remain anonymous, told developers to ...Read More
As we get closer to the launch date of Apple's iPad (April 3), I can't help but ponder how each application I use might translate to the new device.
Games obviously will have a lot more flexibility with the added touch-screen ...Read More
Apple may be next to hop on board the social networking bandwagon after the company filed a patent for an application that would unite iPhone and Mobile Me users in ad hoc groups based on their geographic location. The patent, ...Read More
Conflicting reports have surfaced for the last week about how well Apple's still-unreleased iPad is selling, how well it will sell, and whether it'll make more of a dent in the market than the iPhone's debut.
Most recently, unnamed sources told ...Read More
A new study released by mobile research company Flurry Analytics breaks down the different types of apps currently being tested by developers for the iPad, with games accounting for 44% of the creations.
The latest Apple-related study from the mobile research ...Read More
Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn't mean they haven't been busy working away on software for Apple's newest invention. But, according to an e-mail obtained by Macworld, if you want your iPad ...Read More
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The odds are stacked against Apple Inc.'s new iPad reaching sales of 1 million as quickly as the iPhone, an online bookmaker said. The iPhone, which went on sale in June 2007, took 74 days to get ...Read More
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. "Hundreds of thousands" of units have already been pre-ordered, says ...Read More
Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups ...Read More
If you can't pitch the press, pay them. That's the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Several websites dedicated to iPhone app reviews are requesting payments from developers in exchange for writeups of their apps, Wired.com has learned. ...Read More
A new study from Chetan Sharma Consulting claims that the market for apps will skyrocket to $17.5 billion by 2012. The independent study, commissioned by the world's second-largest app store GetJar, predicts that the number of app downloads will explode ...Read More
Amazon has at last released Kindle for Mac, which means you can now read your Kindle books on most any device. It joins the iPhone, PC Blackberry and of course the Kindle itself.
Like the PC version, Kindle for Mac is ...Read More
