After Nokia announced that its new handsets would support Windows Phone 7 instead of Symbian, it experienced a sharp drop in developer enthusiasm for the older operating system. But the
On Thursday, Apple released a developer build of OS X Lion, and some features of the update will seem awfully familiar to iPad and iPhone developers. “The iPad has inspired
Andrew Vos recently ran an unusual analysis of code comments on GitHub that’s attracting some attention. Using George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words,” he analyzed 929857 commit messages and found 210
The fate of Nokia’s Qt development platform has been uncertain since the company announced that it would be selling smartphones that use the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Now the
For months, Google has been promoting the idea of Web apps without making much headway — probably because Web apps don’t seem much different than Web sites. However, Mozilla’s new
Fragmentation has long been a challenge for Android developers as they attempt to write applications that will work on the various versions of the OS and the myriad of devices
Recently, a post by blogger Jamie Murai took aim at RIM’s developer program. After the post received a deluge of traffic, RIM responded, admitting that many of the points made
In the middle of the iPad 2 introduction, Steve Jobs revealed an interesting statistic: The company has paid out more than $2 billion to App Store developers since its launch