iPad’s Developer Problem

06 Jul 2010 | iPad Development | Ali Gorelova on Google+

The new iPhone 4 sales are taking over the iPad, and now developers who are creating applications for this tablet face another dilemma. They question themselves if they should produce iPad apps or another platform now: the iPhone.

Why would they make it a problem? It’s simple. Too many iPhone and iPod touches are out, and there are not as many iPad users. And iPad won’t approach such numbers in the near future.

Just think about this. Apple claims it has sold over 1.7 million iPhone 4! And this has happened in only 3 days. At the same time it took 80 days to sell 3 million iPads. Thus developers who want to profit out of their products look at iPhone users as at the potential application customers.

There is another side of this issue. It’s easier to develop an iPhone application, because for the iPad the game or app should be displayed on a larger screen. Thus not all great apps can be easily transformed from the iPhone to the iPad or vise versa. It’s not enough just to scale things up.

What developers should do now? Some experts recommend them to design applications timed for the released of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Maybe in this way your app will be promoted better. As for the iPad apps, they should be such apps that users wish to fire up to show off to other users and friends. Only such an application can help iPad owners justify buying $500-700 tablet.

Other experts say that it’s better to launch a big number of apps that came off the same game engine. In such situation, they will promote one another. And every time one of your applications will get top positions in the charts, your other apps sales will also rise.

There is one more opinion. Some developers just stopped working on their iPhone games, and switched to the iPad applications.

The main key to the success of your application is making it a good one. Once you can do this, you can make this game or app a universal one so that both iPad and iPhone users won’t get confused.

So what platform you should work with first is a decision you have to make yourself.

Good luck!

 

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