There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile ...

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Apple's iOS and Mac app stores have popularized the concept, but Microsoft, Google, and others are now adopting it Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, ...

What are third-party app developers worth to Apple? What is access to Apple’s platform worth to developers? While the past year has brought squabbles and lawsuits and regulations related to dating ...

The success of any piece of software is wholly reliant on getting it into the hands of developers and making them want to use it. If a vendor can't convince developers that their tool is useful, ...

California, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah – have enacted laws that purport to require mobile app stores and mobile app developers to ...