The developers of iPhone apps face tricky questions about when they should release applications that takes advantage of the latest software or hardware from Apple.
Trip Hawkins, chief executive of Digital Chocolate, says that iPhone owners seem to be upgrading fast to the newest version of the iPhone’s 3.0 operating system since it was released on June 16. That may mean that iPhone developers may want to adopt the iPhone 3.0 software sooner rather than later. Of course, reports suggest that iPod Touch fans may lag behind the crowd because of fees associated with upgrading.
More than 60 percent of Digital Chocolate’s iPhone customers have upgraded to the new OS, Hawkins said in a blog post. The company sells mobile games and has a number of hits on the iPhone. Its tracking software can detect which version of the OS is on the customer’s phone.