The history of mobile phone business has several chapters that have marked stunning innovations and breakthroughs and one such page in the history was the year 2007, the year that saw arrival of a mobile wizard. Apple Computer got renamed to Apple Inc. and took a long-awaited leap into the mobile phone business with an impressively stylish smartphone called iPhone.

“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.” This was Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., announcing introduction of iPhone in January 2007. Apple has set new horizons where software technology is beyond a handful of people. Apple iPhone app development is a world in itself where programming skills of mobile app developers are getting an open platform. Despite the introduction of iPad in the market, iPhone continues to have a growing popularity and remains a major one and iPad still a substitute product.

There was that day when the first third-party iPhone app OneTrip, a simple, single-page JavaScript shopping list app, had surfaced in June 2007 and it’s this day when there are 200000 plus iPhone apps existing in the Apple Store. Let’s be specific with the facts and figures to get an idea how hot is the iPhone app market. iPhone sales are growing at a rate that suggests 40 to 50 million iPhones to be sold in 2010. Apple allows 70% of revenues from the store to instantly go to the seller of the app and 30% go to Apple. There were about 10,000 apps available by the end of year 2008 in the App Store with 300,000,000 downloads and 100,000 apps by the end of 2009 with over 2 billion downloads. As of June 7, 2010, there are no less than 225,000 third‑party applications officially available on the vibrant App Store with over 5 billion total downloads. All that we understand from this is that iPhone apps development is highly competitive and lucrative. An experienced iphone app developer having an ingenious iPhone app design or idea for the iTunes store can have a great earning thereby through Apple’s open iPhone application development. The application development community for iPhone is exploding with more and more individual developers and companies plunging into it.

What’s the scope of app creativity with iPhone? It’s huge and in multiple fields. Business, education, entertainment, finance, health and fitness, lifestyle, medical, navigation, photography, productivity, social networking, travel, utility, weather – all these have been touched upon and hundreds to thousands of apps are submitted daily in various categories hoping for a successful launch.

iPhone app development companies have sprung up from all the corners of the world and provide custom app production for businesses. There are many to serve you as per your requirement of a low‑end or a high-end app solution. It can cost you from a few thousand dollars to much more depending on what company and how complex type of app you desire. There’s no reason to be ignorant, however, in getting a right service provider. Reviews, forums, blogs, and even browsing over the App Store can get you the idea of the state of an app developing company.

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