Apple opens App Accelerator in India to foster iOS app development

Apple is taking further steps to foster the developer ecosystem in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market. 

The Cupertino-based company today opened a new App Accelerator in Bangalore, India. The announcement comes less than a year after the company opened an iOS App Design and Development Accelerator also in India’s Silicon Valley. 

Through the new App Accelerator (sign up here, if you're a developer), the company hopes to offer specialised support to developers as well as tools to help them push the boundaries. 

At the centre, a group of experts will lead briefings and provide one-on-one app reviews for developers. The company is calling it "the first-of-its-kind facility" for the nation which already has tens of thousands of developers making apps for iOS.   Read more...