Study: Developers Testing Games, Entertainment Apps on iPad – BusinessWeek
Posted by davidcao01 on March 19, 2010
by Douglas MacMillan, Business Week
Some software makers have been lucky enough to get their hands on Apple’s iPad weeks before its April release, people tell Bloomberg BusinessWeek. What kinds of apps are they building?
Games are the focus, judging by the recent activity of software developers monitored by Flurry Analytics:

The chart above shows the proportion of iPad apps being created for each category in the iTunes App Store by developers who are testing on the actual devices. Flurry, a popular provider of analytics software for mobile applications, tracked the number of programs using its software on the tablet and divvied them up by category.
Games are the predominant type of app being tested on the iPad, making up 44% of the total. Entertainment, which Apple has generally defined as videos and novelties like lava lamp apps, take second with 14%. Social networking programs made up 7% of the total, followed by sports, travel, lifestyle, and utilities.
The data is not a comprehensive look at all the apps that will be available for the iPad shortly after its launch, since it does not account for the apps being built on an iPad simulator, which Apple invites anyone to download for a nominal fee.
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