iPhone, a multimedia smart phone was designed and developed by Apple and was launched in June 2007. Till date, Apple has sold over 7.5 million iPhones and this product has brought about a revolution in the mobile handset market. iPhone is a sophisticated, stylish, classy and highly functional gadget. It is more than just a phone. iPhone is a combination of three devices put together: a revolutionary mobile phone, a breakthrough internet device and a wide screen iPod. All this and more makes it the best phone you will ever use.

With popularity of iPhone, iPhone mobile application development has become a major segment of the mobile software development industry. Web interactive iPhone application, basically known as apps, are developed on a SDK-software development kit and can be sold in Apple stores on a profit-sharing basis between individual developers or companies involved in iPhone open application development.

iPhone has created a separate niche, prompting developer to create a range of iPhone application. Some of the prominent applications offered are of the following types:

• Document management and processing
• Finance
• Games and entertainment
• Social networking and web interaction
• Weather forecast etc and many more

As iPhone is from Apple, the development environment is based on Mac platform. For developing iPhone applications, one needs Mac OS X on a computer, along with Visual Studio Developer and Xcode tools. Apple has named its suit of development tools as Xcode, which provides a range of support for code editing, source-code repository management, source-level debugging, performance tuning etc. to name a few. Thus developers having experience in developing Mac solutions are comfortably placed to work on iPhone applications.

A lot of iPhone application development work is getting outsourced to India, given India’s strong track record in software applications and cost effectiveness. Hence, iphone applications development India is the latest buzzword in mobile application developments. There, developers are working on certain industry specific iPhone applications to further leverage its strength and enhance its usage.