Apple’s new application development platform, iPhone App Store

Apple has just announced development of iPhone App Store. This revelation was made during the key note address by Steve Jobs at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The company has created the powerful platform for development of new applications. It has also developed new tools to bring the new mobile applications to the market in shortest time. The App Store linked with iTunes music and video store is created to facilitate easy search and downloading of applications.

Ken Dulaney, an analyst with Gartner, is impressed with the speed with which Apple’s application development platform has matured. The large number of handset models, with different processing capabilities and screen sizes, make the process of application development, time consuming. It takes several months to launch a single application.

Apple has created a simple-to-use tool, which allows development of applications within weeks. Sam Altman, chief executive of Loopt, one of the users of iPhone SDK, described the tool as amazing. He disclosed that it took just two months as against 12 months in the past to create the ever best version of Loopt’s applications.  Apple has provided not only the ability to create applications quickly and easily but also a rich environment for the developers.

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