Despite the easy-peasy development nature of the iPhone, there are some big legal strings attached to getting an app out into the wild, especially for those trying to take their app out of the U.S. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple.

OS 26.2 Beta 2 brings fresh visual polish, new Games app features, improved navigation, and expanded safety alerts as Apple continues refining its late-year update.

Ex-iPhone app developer Mike Ash, who has abandoned the platform because of Apple's "nonsense." One year after disgruntled iPhone App developer Mike Ash wrote about his frustrations trying to get his software approved by Apple, he says nothing has changed.

Apple’s application platform for the iPhone — and soon, iPad — has proven far more popular than any other, including Facebook. Both in terms of supply and demand, Apple’s app market is far and away the biggest. The latest monthly report from mobile ...

Digital rights watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticised Apple's developer licence agreement for the iPhone, describing several of its terms as "troubling". The rights group obtained the iPhone Developer Programme Licence Agreement from ...

Apple yesterday warned iPhone application developers that all apps submitted for iTunes App Store approval must be compliant with iPhone OS 3.0. In an e-mail sent to registered iPhone developers, Apple said all new apps will be tested for approval on the ...

We’ve reported in the past on how Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has not only been late on payments to iPhone app developers, but has also neglected to pay some developers for their app sales at the store entirely. We thought that perhaps our post might call Apple ...

Don Reisinger thinks Android can be a refuge for rejected iPhone developers. Even better, he thinks it could make Apple change its ways. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee ...

Apple was today denied permission to appeal the result of a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by UK app developers accusing

The second developer beta of iOS 26.2 has arrived with changes to system animations and updates for the Games app. Here's what's new.