The iPhone continues to awe the not-so-easily awed world of hi-tech connoisseurs, so it stands to reason that iPhone aficionados would demand innovative iPhone applications. Case in point, studies show that iPhone owners are 94 times as likely to download an app than a non-iPhone owner.
The need for unique, custom iPhone applications continues to grow, as does our team of iPhone developers.We can create iPhone software at any complexity level for uses in areas such as:
Games
Tools & Utilities
RSS aggregators
News
Sports
Travel
App integrators
Social networking
Messaging tools
Medical (Personal & Professional)
Business & Finance
Why build iPhone Applications?
17.4 million iPhones sold between June 2007 and Dec. 27, 2008.
Analyst estimates are that 13M of those iPhones sold are in the U.S.
25% of non-iPhone smart phone owners have downloaded an app, and they download on average 2.5 apps per year.
iPhone owners download 2.7M apps / day (averaged across the lifetime of the App Store, but this is actually an accelerating curve) or 83M apps per month. (Apple)
So the group of 17M iPhone owners is downloading apps at 6.4x the rate (83M / 13M) of the group of 250M non-iPhone owners.
The Answer to the Why is obvious. If you want to build an application that has the best chance of being bought by the fastest growing and most target friendly environment, then make it an iPhone Application.
iPhone Web Apps
An iPhone web app is a web-based application that runs within the iPhone web browser (Safari). The applications are fronted with XHTML/CSS and Javascript and backed by a programming language like PHP and Ruby on Rails.
In addition to providing standard browser functionality, the iPhone browser engine (WebKit) also implements some extensions to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript including several specific to Safari on iPhone. Some Safari on iPhone extensions include CSS animation and transform properties, JavaScript database support, and JavaScript multi-touch event support. This iPhone specific browser features allows to create web apps with iPhone look and feel.