Flurry: 22% of Recent Mobile Applications Starts Targeting iPad
Mobile analytics firm Flurry today released data showing the impact of the iPad on mobile application development in recent months, revealing that 22% of new applications starts registered with the company over the past 60 days have targeted the iPad. The data follows up on an earlier report just two weeks after the iPad's introduction that started to show the device's effect on developer interest.
Flurry's data shows that the new arrival of the iPad and continued growth for iPhone/iPod touch applications have sent total new application starts skyrocketing to over 3,000 in March, with those devices accounting for nearly 90% of the total. Despite continued growth in developer interest for the Android platform, it has been unable to keep pace in terms of share, falling from 18% for 2009 to 10% over the past 60 days.
Flurry's data shows that the new arrival of the iPad and continued growth for iPhone/iPod touch applications have sent total new application starts skyrocketing to over 3,000 in March, with those devices accounting for nearly 90% of the total. Despite continued growth in developer interest for the Android platform, it has been unable to keep pace in terms of share, falling from 18% for 2009 to 10% over the past 60 days.
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28 months ago
Wow, this is just amazing. I really want to get one of them for my self, but I do have an iphone and macbook pro. Should I still get it?
28 months ago
Hey... didn't Amazon release an SDK for the kindle? I don't see that represented here ;)
28 months ago
at first i didn't want one, but i'm thinking about it now that there is a netflix app. gotta play with it first
28 months ago
Well the iPad is a new platform of sorts. New platform, new apps. Unless developers thought it was going to fail miserably this kind of report is unsurprising.
28 months ago
I hope the iPhone doesn't get left behind...
I think this story represents catchup. The iPhone will still have a huge advantage in numbers over the iPad once the dust settles. Developers have to respect that.
My hope is that the Mac doesn't get left behind and that OS X doesn't get 'iPadified.'
28 months ago
No surprise. It's where the money is.
The best OS, the best build quality, the best content, excellent pricing models, overwhelmingly positive reviews even for a first version...what else can be said? Mine is already ordered through a friend visiting the US...I just hope he'll be able to find an unit for me in the New Jersey area. ;)
NETBOOKS ARE DEAD. MS IS DEAD. GOOGLE IS DEAD. DELL IS DEAD. In fact, ALL Apple competitors are dead in the water by now.
The company whose doom was predicted by virtually all "pundits" NOW dictates what is successful in the world of IT, and will soon overtake bloated MS as the biggest personal electronics/IT company in the history of mankind.
Thank you for yet ANOTHER watershed event in the history of personal electronics, Apple!
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