Developers made $10bn from iOS apps in 2014
iPhone and iPad owners spent nearly $500m on apps and in-app purchases in the first week of January 2015 too
Goodbye smart gadgets. Hello dumb tech
Stuart Heritage: Feature-filled phones, Apple Watches and expensive coffee machines are all very well, but sometimes they just make life more complicated. It’s time to learn the joy of low tech
Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
Firm failed to tell consumers that iOS 8 software could take up as much as 23.1% of advertised storage capacity, claims lawyer
The best apps of 2014 for Android, iPhone and iPad
If you’ve unwrapped a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, here is the Guardian’s guide to the best new apps to download
The best iPad apps for kids of 2014
Education, creativity and entertainment in equal measure in our end-of-year selection of the iPad apps that will delight children and parents alike
The best iPhone apps of 2014
From SwiftKey and FireChat to Replay Video Editor and Silent Text 2: the best new iPhone apps that the App Store had to offer this year
The best iPhone and iPad games of 2014
Monument Valley, Hearthstone, Vainglory and more in our roundup of the best games to hit Apple’s App Store this year
BlackBerry courts fans with new Classic model that looks like 2012 all over again
The company is returning to its roots with a new smartphone featuring a traditional keyboard at a time when rivals and most customers have fully embraced touchscreens
Should Apple censor games differently to music and books? Open thread
Have your say on Papers, Please controversy, as well as YouTube music, the visual web, a ‘Spotify for news’ and social media complaining
20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week
Step Buy Step, Workflow, Seabeard, Papers Please, Mickey’s Magical Maths World, Marvel Contest of Champions, PDF Office and more
20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week
Stampy Cat, Wire, Bean Dreams, Game of Thrones, The Meaning of Liff, Rufus Wainwright, Etherlords and more
Apple’s best apps of 2014: Replay, Pixelmator, Threes! and Monument Valley
But the top grossing iPhone and iPad apps of the last 12 months were freemium social games: Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans
Tess Daly: ‘Googling yourself is the road to destruction. Never done it, never will’
The Strictly Come Dancing presenter on being a strict mum over computers, the tech-savvy Bruce Forsyth and why she loves WhatsApp
Sphero Ollie review: the remote control car reimagined
Ollie is a little smartphone-controlled rolling robot cylinder that can race, jump and pull mid-air tricks like a cylindrical Tony Hawk
YouTube star The Diamond Minecart launches app for his Minecraft videos
With 4.3m subscribers and 1.6bn views so far, British gamer Daniel Middleton is following peers PewDiePie and The Yogscast onto smartphones and tablets