The app store already hosts more than 130k applications. It's a thriving environment with 3 billon+ downloads, and now a new member is born in the family called the iPad. This is very good news for us to learn that a platform we've chosen to invest in keeps growing, and creating new opportunities.
New opportunities in this niche we see it coming from two directions, first a trend towards corporate applications. By now every CEO, and marketing manager has caught on to the fact that iPhone means cool, and that if you want to be anybody in the biz world you've got to have presence in the app store, and if possible you have to provide an iPhone access to your service.
The second direction is called iPad as a game changer programmed with Objective-C. The whole iPad hype is worth a post on it's own, whether it will be a success as big as the iPhone is too early to tell, and beyond the point. Apple releasing a tablet means only one thing, this will be the year tablets will become hot & sexy. Which leads to the second point, the rise of the walking tablets.
(this post is the first in a series titled technology watch for 2010)
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