Despite the easy-peasy development nature of the iPhone, there are some big legal strings attached to getting an app out into the wild, especially for those trying to take their app out of the U.S.

A gold rush for iPhone and other smartphone application developers is in the works, with U.S. revenues from smartphone apps expected to increase more than 10 times through 2013, to $4.2 billion. That ...

Apple’s application platform for the iPhone — and soon, iPad — has proven far more popular than any other, including Facebook. Both in terms of supply and demand, Apple’s app market is far and away ...

After a short pause following the release of iOS 18.3 to the general public, the Apple beta train is once again picking up speed. Registered developers can now install the first beta of iOS 18.4, ...

Smartphones and their apps are the new way of the world, and developers are lured by their increasing popularity. But with two major platforms — Apple’s recently upgraded and renamed iOS 4 and ...

We’ve reported in the past on how Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has not only been late on payments to iPhone app developers, but has also neglected to pay some developers for their app sales at the store ...

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Unless you're an app developer, you'll probably want to wait for the iOS 17 public beta in July. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and ...

Developers are gearing up for the new possibilities in the iPad, but they may have to move beyond their iPhone roots Software developers already building applications for Apple’s wildly popular iPhone ...

Swiss software firm Mogo has a novel strategy, for iPhone apps! Step one: Release a free version of your paid app. Step two: Use it to secretly steal users’ phone numbers. Step three: Call them, ...