A number of smartphones marketers have been racing to reduce the gap between themselves and the iPhone. However, Apple manages to pull forward every time.

Apple seems to have done it yet again.

Apple unveiled a series of new capabilities on Mar. 17 . This makes it much easier for the software developers to create new interesting and cool iPhone applications. The company presented a show on the applications and also the software development kit. This will result in Apple maintaining its lead over all others in this smart phones sector. Consider this : in just abot 7 to 8 months, software developers have created more than 25,000+ applications that are available on Apple’s online App Store – in spite of the fact that over 60% of these have never written anything for Apple before.

Consumers have also downloaded more than 800 million of these applications, from games to software.The wide range of the applications is a key reason why the iPhone went onto become No. 3 in this market.

All others seem to be playing only catch up!