Iphone-development Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Booyah starts off slow, offers $1000 in contest

by Mike Schramm (Aug 6th, 2009)

I've been playing with the hyped-up Booyah Society app for about a week or so now, and I don't think my reaction is too singular: it's not all that great. The idea is certainly a good one: take your real-life achievements and turn them into a game, complete with points and an avatar, but in ...

Over one million downloads for Stanford's iPhone dev course

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2009)

Here's a telling sign of the popularity of iPhone development: we posted about an online course being offered by Stanford just a few months ago, and in that time, the course has been downloaded over a million times through iTunes. The director of iTunes U at Apple says this is the fastest any course ...

Did Web-only development fail the iPhone?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 19th, 2007)

A thoughtful post over at FactoryJoe.com asks whether the Web failed the iPhone. Apple's initial decision to support only Web 2.0 third-party apps on the iPhone gave the web-based community a huge shot of creativity and incentive to see how far they could push the iPhone and Safari in terms of ...