On this day in 2008, the still-new iPhone gained an App Store, destroyed selling software in boxes, made apps cheaper — and is now mired in controversy. Software used to cost hundreds of dollars and ...

There’s an interesting and totally unofficial desktop software app in development by the members of the Ubuntu Flutter community. Devs describe it as ‘an alternative software store for the Ubuntu ...

It's impossible to imagine modern life without smartphone apps, but there's an alternate universe where they never took off. When the idea of an app store for the iPhone was first proposed to him, ...

Amazon on Thursday announced its Mac Software Downloads store, the company’s latest attempt at competing directly with Apple’s various online media outlets. Hawking a modest selection of Mac ...

Controversial app ICEBlock has been removed from the Apple App Store after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded its removal, suggesting it was being used to harm ICE agents. ICEBlock removed from Apple ...

Adobe Photoshop, Spotify, Canva, Zillow and other well-known digital tools are now apps within ChatGPT. OpenAI has launched ...

An app, short for "application," is a piece of software developed primarily for use on a phone, tablet, or other mobile, wireless device. If you use an iPhone or iPad, you are using an app every time ...

“Software distribution was absolutely primitive before the App Store,” app developer Phill Ryu told Wired. “It deserves just as much credit as the original iPhone hardware and iOS in defining our ...

Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) has come into force as of December 18th, 2025 in a move aimed at cracking open ...

Apple has put a planned overhaul of its App Store rules in Texas on hold after a federal judge blocked the state’s new ...