Chapter 15. Understanding iPhone Applications and the App Store

Using Third-Party and Web-Based Apps to Make the iPhone More Than Just a PDA, Media Player, or Phone

As you learned in the first two parts of this book, there's no doubt that the iPhone and iPod touch are amazing devices with a lot of potential straight out of the box. But what makes the iPhone a truly powerful mobile computing platform is that Apple has provided third-party developers with some amazing tools to create their own applications that extend the iPhone in many different directions. In this chapter, you'll learn about the App Store, from which you can purchase and download tens of thousands of iPhone applications, and web-based iPhone applications, which you can access through ...

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