iPad is exactly the product I’ve been wishing for ever since I wrapped my mind around the iPhone and its constraints.
Joe Hewitt, the lead developer of the Facebook app for the iPhone, who famously left the Facebook app project when he got fed up with the App Store approvals process, is full of enthusiasm about the iPad, and especially for what it offers for developers …
iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software there is. Seriously, if you’re a developer and you’re not thinking about how your app could work better on the iPad and its descendants, you deserve to get left behind.
Hewitt has a great blog post up – at both his own site and as a guest post at the GigaOm site – outlining his thoughts on the barriers he hit with the iPhone’s smaller screen, and the enormous potential he sees in developing for the iPad. He’s even got some great insight on the ways in which Apple’s closed platform is a very good thing. Check out his post here:
Patrick Jordan
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