Apple warms up to the business market and Arthur Cole recommends 10 Apple apps for companies.
For developers, the money is starting to shift into developing "line of business" apps for companies of all sizes: two of the restaurants I visited today in San Francisco used iPads for their point-of-sale systems, and it won't have been because Apple is headquartered in the same region.
Designs and builds mobile and tablet apps for companies.
"The first thing we say to clients who say they want an app is 'are you sure?'" says Colin McCaffrey, from mobile technology firm 2ergo, which has designed apps for companies such as insurance giant Aviva and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
By contrast, Riverturn, which creates apps for companies, has fewer than 20 employees, so building applications for the iPhone is a bigger bet for the start-up than it is for Google.
AppMakr's parent company, PointAbout, has been creating custom iPhone apps for companies for 1.5 years, says co-Founder Daniel Odio.
Founded in 2008, by Scott Suhy, Daniel R. Odio, Sean Shadmad, and Isaac Mosquera, the company started building custom apps for companies like Disney, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Politico.
As part of a partnership with mobile app developer StepLeader, Taboola was built into mobile apps for companies like Fox Television Stations, Capitol Broadcasting Company, ComCorp USA, Cowles California Media, News-Press GazeTelevisionst Television and Titan TV Broadcast Group.
It's worked hand-in-hand with a number of developers to get their apps on Xbox Live (including YouTube), and has even built apps for companies like Twitter and Facebook to get them on Windows Phone.
However, the startup was built by a veteran team that has designed and developed storage software apps for companies like IBM, NetApp and Xtremio, which, of course, was just acquired by EMC.
