Apple added Indian rupee along with 7 other currencies to be supported in its app store. This will allow iPhone developers and consumers to sell and purchase apps in their local currency.
Apple’s software subsidiary, Filemaker, is positioning its database as another way small businesses that can create smartphone or tablet applications for internal use.
Apple in a recent update to its Mac OS X operating system, removed the Java browser plugin altogether. It has now asked users to download the Java plugin directly from Oracle’s website, which puts the onus on the user and Oracle to keep the plugin updated.
The larger screen in iPhone 5 and the new iOS 6 operating system has prompted apple and other third party developers to get their apps updated and approved as soon as possible, developers are seeing approvals within a few hours.
We hear success stories about apps, and get excited to hop on the bandwagon. Is this as exciting a space as is made out to be? How lucrative is app development?
AntiSec has published Unique Device Identifiers (UDID) of more than 1 million devices and claims that it was stolen from an FBI laptop.
In part 2 of the series on developing an iOS application, we explore the tools involved. Here, we begin with Xcode.
We all know China is a huge market. However, numbers don’t necessarily bring in numbers as Apple must be realising from figures available. In this report posted on TheNextWeb, despite nearly 20 percent of downloads on the App Store, Apple China just contributes to 3 percent of revenue!
In a recent move, Google has pushed for a broadening of essential standards to encompass ubiquitous features such as multitouch, much to the dismay of Apple. The iPhone maker, on its part, insists its R&D is its own “magical” thinking and not for general use.
