iPhone App Development

Although experience and know-how will come handy in developing iPhone apps, majority of app developers today usually forget some of the basic foundations that are essential in iPhone app development. Last year, a lot has changed in the app development industry due to the growing number of players and the never ending changes in the market trend. Developers customarily focus on the technical aspects of iPhone app development that they forget to comply with simple and practical policies that will enable them to create a universally accepted application that will also have a big potential for today’s market.

Fiksu, a marketing technology company tracked the effect of iPhone 4S on the overall iPhone app downloads. They found that the volume of download for the top two hundred apps significantly increased to 15% from previous record in October of 4.91 million downloads per day. In November last year, the company’s trend measuring system, the “App Store Competitive Index maxed out at 5.65 million app downloads everyday which has topped the five million mark for the first time. All in all, these totals to 83% increase in November of last year.

IPhone users who are still running the OS build 3.1.3 are seemingly having troubles downloading new applications from Apple’s App Store. Some of the users of older Apple OS build reported on Apple's Support Communities that they are having problems directly installing new apps to their devices although they can still update thiey already existing apps or sync their apps from iTunes to their iPhones.

Apple has been quite busy this past week in rolling out iTunes Match to its international market. However, the company is still able to find time in pushing out software updates both for Apple TV and iPhone 4S. The latest update makes it possible to legally port Siri to other Apple devices running on iOS.

Siri is one of the best technological innovations integrated by Apple in its iPhone 4S. This integrated voice assistant has been the point of focus of a lot of hackers in their attempt to port Siri. Some are successful in porting Siri to other devices but public distribution has remained illegal. On the other hand, everything could change at least for iPhone 4 with the introduction of iOS 5.0.1 update.

The iOS 5.1 software meant to fix the battery issues with iPhone 4S has entered the second stage of developer beta testing in advance of the possible mass consumer rollout. There are a lot of iPhone users who are experiencing similar problems associated with severe battery draining issues which is largely due to the bug found in the iOS 5 battery fix released by Apple. This time, the new iOS 5.1 Beta has been released to developers in the hope of being able to change the well publicized battery issues. The new iOS 5.1 Beta is in its final stage of beta testing after it made its way to developers.

Owners of iPhone 4S rated their smart phones much higher than iPhone 4 onwers did last year. A pollster body, Change Wave Research conducted a survey early November of more than two hundred iPhone 4S owners in the United States and at least 77% percent of the participants professed high satisfaction with the device while 19% agreed that they are merely ‘satisfied’ with their iPhone. All in all, at least ninety six percent of iPhone 4S owners proclaimed satisfaction with their smart phones. Last year, about 72% of iPhone 4 users were very satisfied while the remaining 21% were reluctantly happy with their iPhones.

A lot of rumors are circulating about what Apple will pull off for their next smart phone. One of the buzzes is that LG is already working on the 4 inches display for the iPhone 5 and according to The Korea Times; the Korean manufacturer is working on the new display that will be one of the leading features for the new iPhone. A deal was negotiated for $1.1 billion for LG to equip Apple’s new line of smart phone with a four inch screen instead of the regular 3.5 inches screen. This new format is said to compete with other smart phone and tablet manufacturer like HTC Flyer, Galaxy Tab, and Kindle Fire among others.