application store, also known as the APP Store. Is the Apple store on iPhone software applications to users with third-party iPhone applications services, this is for Apple to create a fusion of Internet and mobile phone new business model.
History
March 6, 2008, Apple released outside the application for the iPhone development kit (SDK), available for free download to third-party application developers for the iPhone and Touch applications. Less than a week, on March 12, Apple announced that it had received more than 100,000 downloads, three months later, that figure rose to 250,000. Apple has introduced products in the technology have been maintained closed, such as year of Mac, the launch of SDK can be said that the unprecedented move of opening up. Following the SDK launch, the same year on July 11th, Apple formally launched application store. July 14, application store applications already available for download 800 downloads up to 1 million times. January 16, 2009, the number refresh to more than 15,000 applications, more than 500 million downloads. application store platform, most of the applications for less than 10 dollars, and about 20% of the applications are available for free download. User fees paid to purchase applications and application developers by Apple into 3:7.
Significance
The significance of model application store for third-party software providers to provide convenient and efficient for a software distribution platform, makes the third-party software providers to participate in the unprecedented enthusiasm, adapted to the mobile phone users Men on personalized software Xuqiu , which makes mobile phone software industry entered a rapid, healthy development track, is Apple's application store to conduct such a business raising it to the people to follow a business model, Apple's application store opened up mobile software industry chapter, application store will no doubt become a mobile software industry is an important milestone in the history of its meaning far beyond the "iPhone software applications store" itself.
iPhone OS
iPhone OS or OS XiPhone was developed by Apple for the iPhone operating system. It is mainly used for iPhone and iPodtouch. Like its Mac OSX operating system based as it is based in Darwin. iPhoneOS system architecture is divided into four levels: the core operating system layer (the Core OSlayer), the core service layer (the Core Serviceslayer), Media layer (the Media layer), can tap layer (theCocoa Touchlayer). System operation occupy about 512MB of storage space. iPhone OS consists of two parts: the operating system and be able to iPhone and iPod touch devices to run a native application technology. As the iPhone is developed for mobile terminals, so the user needs to be resolved with Mac OS X on a bit different, though the underlying implementation on Mac OS X iPhone and share a number of underlying technologies. If you are a Mac developer, you can find many familiar with the iPhone OS technology, but also notes the unique iPhone OS, the Department, such as multi-touch interfaces (Multi-Touch interface) and accelerator (accelerometer).
Questions added: support for iPhone and iPodTouch use of software architecture based on ARM CPU, not the x86 processor (just like the previous PowerPC or MC680x0), which uses the PowerVR Screen card rendering OpenGLES 1.1.. Therefore, Mac OS X on the application can not run directly copied to the iPhoneOS. They need to re-write for iPhoneOS of ARM. But, as mentioned below, Safari browser support for "Web Application." IPhone OS2.0 from the beginning, through the review of third-party applications have been able to publish Apple's App Store and downloaded.
iPhone OS application that comes with version 2.2 firmware, iPhone's main interface includes the following native applications: SMS (SMS), calendar, photos, camera, YouTube, stocks, maps (AGPS supporting Google Maps) , weather, time, computer, memoranda, system settings, iTunes (will be linked to iTunesMusicStore and iTunes radio directory), AppStore, and contact information. There are four in the bottom of the common applications include: Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod. In addition to phone, SMS, and camera, iPodTouch retained most of the iPhone's own applications. iPhone's "iPod" program iPodTouch been divided into two: music and video. Dock at the bottom of the main interface of the application procedures on the main functions under the iPodTouch changed: music, video, photos, and iTunes.
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