Milestone of 100 thousand. Application successfully passed for iPad

Online store applications for iOS, App Store, «hit», so to speak, the next milestone: at the moment it contains more than 100 thousand. applications specially adapted for iPad. Such a number of software for the tablet has accumulated in the App Store a little more than a year, and more specifically, for 453 days from the date of publication of the sale of the first iPad model.

Some of these applications include initially focused on the tablet, as well as many of the products that are adapted to its particular after the release for iPhone. Do not forget those programs that are primarily developed universal for iPhone, or for iPad.

Creating iPhone and iOS in the form in which it is now, it helped a lot in achieving this milestone. The original "apple" smartphone was released in 2007 without a software package for developers. In fact, he was just a "dialer". Wishes to create applications for the iPhone can only rely on them to run in Safari mobile version environment. The developers did not appreciate the Apple move, and in 2008 with the release of iPhone 3G the company has made available a full SDK. As a result, there was and the App Store to buy and download third-party applications. At the moment, this service is one of the most important sources of income for Apple's, given the 30 percent commission charged by the company for each sold program. But iPhone-community veterans do remember that before the App Store was the Installer and were enthusiasts who created good program without an official SDK. And now, in parallel with the Apple store mobile essentially a descendant of the very first informal service of this kind - Cydia. But now it's not about him.

What next? Ultra-rapid growth in the number of applications for the iPad in the App Store should not be expected. Yes, the new program will fill up lists of the most popular and sold, and to lead the rankings. But it will happen gradually. In addition, very soon all the attention of users to attract service release iCloud. In combination with Automatic Downloads feature (automatic content download to all iGadzhetov and user computers) cloud service to make a purchase, and download applications from the App Store even easier and more convenient. [MacStories]