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How do you find the best iPhone apps?

With more than 70,000 apps available to download for the iPhone, Apple's App Store doesn't really do enough to help users find what they need.

Unless you know exactly which app you want, then searching for new apps can be a slow and frustrating process. I've been taking a look at the App Store, as well as a couple of alternatives for discovering new apps...

by Graham Charlton 04 September 2009 11:38am 7 comments

The difference between the App Store and Android Market? A summer home

According to estimates in a recent report, around $200m in iPhone apps are sold each month in Apple's App Store. The same report pegged the amount of money generated by app sales in Google's Android Market at only $5m.

But one company that develops apps that are sold in both marketplaces, Larva Labs, suggests that the gap between the iPhone economy and the Android economy may be even greater.

The reason? Despite producing Android apps that are ranked well in the Android Market, that have been featured by Google and that sell for $4.99/each, the company only managed to make $62.39/day on average from Android app sales during the month of August. As Larva Labs' Matt Hall writes, "Very difficult to buy the summer home at this rate".

by Patricio Robles 01 September 2009 09:13am 2 comments

Choosing a platform: seven considerations for developers

It's a good to be an independent developer. The number and variety of development platforms on which to build has exploded over the past several years. From the iPhone to Salesforce to Facebook, opportunity knocks at every turn.

But if you're an independent developer, choosing which platform to develop for can be a difficult task. Many developers today decide to develop for the platforms that seem to offer the quickest path to riches.

by Patricio Robles 05 August 2009 11:48am 0 comments

Why government should stay out of the App Store

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating Apple and AT&T after Google's Voice iPhone app was rejected for inclusion in the App Store.

The justification: the FCC "has a mission to foster a competitive wireless marketplace, protect and empower consumers, and promote innovation and investment".

by Patricio Robles 03 August 2009 14:00pm 4 comments

App Store: 1.5bn served

In 1963, McDonald's reached a significant milestone that it would go on to proudly promote: 1bn hamburgers served. The milestone was achieved a mere 23 years after Dick and Mac McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in California.

But in the internet age, 23 years is an eternity. Just ask Apple. It announced yesterday that it had hit an impressive milestone of its own: more than 1.5bn apps downloaded in the App Store's first full year.

by Patricio Robles 15 July 2009 09:10am 1 comment

Adult content hits the iPhone

The day many iPhone developers have been waiting for has arrived. Yes, I'm talking about the availability of adult content on the iPhone.

Thanks to the iPhone 3.0 OS, which includes parental controls, the App Store has its first officially sanctioned app that provides adult content.

by Patricio Robles 25 June 2009 09:36am 5 comments

Nokia's Ovi Store gets off to a rocky start

Companies like Nokia were in the mobile phone business long before Apple but with the iPhone and App Store, Apple has been able to eclipse larger rivals in the innovation department.

Today, Nokia fired back at the App Store with an app store of its own: Ovi Store.

by Patricio Robles 26 May 2009 16:03pm 1 comment

Is the iPhone about to get a whole lot more risqué?

Getting an app approved on the iPhone can be a tough task. And it's currently all but impossible if your app is a little too sexy or just plain demented.

But all that may soon be changing when Apple launches version 3 of the iPhone OS.

by Patricio Robles 05 May 2009 10:00am 1 comment

Now you can lose money as an iPhone developer!

A lot has been made about the significant amounts of money some of the most successful (and lucky) iPhone app creators are making.

The lure of instant fortune has turned iPhone app development into a get-rich-quick pursuit for thousands of developers who all hope that the App Store does for them what it has done for the most successful app developers.

by Patricio Robles 27 March 2009 09:01am 2 comments