Friday, I wrote about how I believed that Saturday’s release of the Apple iPad represented a revolution in Information Technology. Reviews continue to be outstanding. On Sunday, I continued the discussion of the revolution… writeing about its one-of-a-kind media access. Today, we will look at the Apple iPad Application store and discuss what it means to the computing world.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I tell you that I have not touched an Apple iPad yet. If Apple wants to give me access to one, I promise to fairly and rapidly review it and post my thoughts. I should get to play with one today.
There is no peer in the computer world to the application set that is accessible from the iPad. Simply None. And that is completely amazing for a system that has been on the street for less than 2 days.
Take a look at these comparisons. Remember that this is the state of play less than one full business day after release.
Applications available for:
- Apple iPad = 3636 native plus 170,000 iPhone/iPod Touch applications
- Google Android = 40,000
- Palm Pre = 2000
There is no doubt that this bodes very well for the iPad.
What is amazing is that there are so many exclusive, one of a kind apps already, including:
There is a real case to be made that the success of a platform in the digital age is directly proportional to its developer support as measured by the number of independent applications that are available for it. By that measure, the iPad is already a home run. The only real questions is whether it will be a grand slam.
Please go to Apple’s Official iPad site and see for yourself, on the eve of the Tablet Age on Information Technology, what all the news is about! Welcome to the future of computing.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 6, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
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Friday, I wrote about how I believed that Saturday’s release of the Apple iPad represented a revolution in Information Technology. Reviews continue to be outstanding. On Sunday, I continued the discussion of the revolution… writeing about its one-of-a-kind media access. Today, we will look at the Apple iPad Application store and discuss what it means to the computing world.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I tell you that I have not touched an Apple iPad yet. If Apple wants to give me access to one, I promise to fairly and rapidly review it and post my thoughts. I should get to play with one today.
There is no peer in the computer world to the application set that is accessible from the iPad. Simply None. And that is completely amazing for a system that has been on the street for less than 2 days.
Take a look at these comparisons. Remember that this is the state of play less than one full business day after release.
Applications available for:
There is no doubt that this bodes very well for the iPad.
What is amazing is that there are so many exclusive, one of a kind apps already, including:
There is a real case to be made that the success of a platform in the digital age is directly proportional to its developer support as measured by the number of independent applications that are available for it. By that measure, the iPad is already a home run. The only real questions is whether it will be a grand slam.
Please go to Apple’s Official iPad site and see for yourself, on the eve of the Tablet Age on Information Technology, what all the news is about! Welcome to the future of computing.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 6, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: reuters.com
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