An app, short for "application," is a piece of software developed primarily for use on a phone, tablet, or other mobile, wireless device. If you use an iPhone or iPad, you are using an app every time ...

Apple sent out a note this week to app developers confirming that more advertising could be coming to the iPhone App Store in time for the holiday season. With the amount of advertising that already ...

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, ...

Apple's App Store is simultaneously one of the best and worst things about living in the iPhone ecosystem. On the plus side, it's a great one-stop shopping resource to get every third-party app you ...

The European Union (EU) used the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) to force Apple to allow third-party App Store alternatives on the iPhone. The DMA also brings third-party payments and sideloading to the ...

In April, Apple updated its guidelines to allow retro game emulators on the App Store, and several popular emulators have already been released. The emulators released so far allow iPhone users to ...

Third-party app stores are coming to the iPhone and iPad in Europe, as is iPhone sideloading and support for third-party payment systems. Apple might dread it, and it's not ready to announce it. But ...

I wrote last year about Tinkerstellar, a new iPad app inspired by Apple’s Swift Playground that’s designed to help people learn Python through multiple interactive lessons. Tinkerstellar is now ...