What Would a Bigger iPhone Mean for iOS Developers?

If you believe the rumor mill, Apple is planning on releasing a larger iPhone later this year. Yes, yes, we've heard the bigger iPhone reports before, but the latest batch adds considerable credence to the idea that Apple will finally enter the big-screen waters.

Even though the company has repeatedly stated that it is happy with the size of the current iPhone, as my friend Rene Ritchie likes to say, with Apple, you can never say never.

The central challenge that Apple has with moving to a bigger phone is that the larger screen could be problematic for the hundreds of thousands of iOS developers who work on the platform. If we accept the idea that Apple needs a larger-screen phone (and I think it does), what does that mean for developers and app designers? Read more...