Already have an iPhone web app?  We can wrap it with our native springboard and submit it to the iTunes App Store within 24 hours. By turning your iPhone web app into a native app, you’ll get access to the phone’s features via javascript calls, including the accelerometer, GPS latitude & longitude (or we can reverse-geocode for you to the nearest physical address), the contact address book, the camera, and more.  Suddenly, you can make… Read more »

Native Application vs. Web Application: A native application is a piece of software.  Think of it just like software on your computer, like Microsoft Office, for example.  You download native applications onto your phone, just like you would install Microsoft Office onto your computer.  Most of the icons on an iPhone are native applications. Web applications, by contrast, are served to you inside a website.  There’s nothing to install.  The problem is, web applications don’t… Read more »

Thinking of making your own iPhone application?  Stop!  Here are five really good reasons to consider PointAbout’s approach instead: Building a native application is expensive.  Making a native iPhone app requires deep knowledge of Objective C.  Making a native BlackBerry app requires deep knowledge of Java.  And the list goes on for each phone platform.  Are you really in the business of finding, hiring & managing expensive programming talent?  Contrast that with PointAbout’s approach:  We allow… Read more »

From concept to fully executed application in 3 weeks!  Learn how we did it. You can also Read the press coverage, from Wash Post, to TechCrunch, NY Times, ABC News, TIME Magazine & many more.  PointAbout announced today a partnership with Qorvis Communications and Patton Boggs, LLP, along with support by Zagat Surveys, LLC to create an Inauguration Application for the 2009 Barak Obama Washington DC Inauguration.   The application has been approved by Apple… Read more »