Comments on: Will The iPad Score App Store Gold Or Be A Developer Bust

By: Loweded Wookie

Loweded Wookie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:02:58 +0000

Actually the iPad (especially the 3G version) is the most perfect device for anyone needing information at their finger tips quickly and efficiently.

This means that people like me (systems engineer), warehousing employees, police, fire, ambulance, doctors, nurses, restaurants, real estate, lawyers… the list carries on like this will ALL benefit from the iPad.

Just limiting the device to gamers, music listeners, internet surfers, and book readers is narrow minded and shows how little they understand what this device is all about.

The developers that matter have already realised the potential and those developers will be the Office suite developers, database frontend developers, medical developers, etc. Everything else will slot in perfectly though.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:08:49 +0000

There are ipad users? Iteresting that it states that ipad users are not gamers when the product hasn’t come out yet

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:38:41 +0000

Gaming apps might take a hit, but as someone who has an iPad on order I can tell you that I am looking forward to productivity Apps. I think there will be a large market for task management, notes and other types of productivity apps. The larger screen size of the iPad will make it the perfect platform for things like an interactive recipe book app, or a workout log app. While the iPhone and iPod touch did make a big impact into gaming, I think this device could be the big impact for executives and the kinds of applications they will buy (at much higher prices btw).

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:01:46 +0000

I’m looking forward to playing tabletop ‘board’ games on it, in addition to reading and surfing. I suspect it’s going to lend itself quite well to face to face games, being without the scattered pieces and with all the portability of bringing it to a friend’s house. First-person shooter? No. Plants vs. Zombies on the couch while waiting for a commercial, food, etc.? Sure. I’m expecting this to be in my living room as a couch computer, and for easy toting back and forth to work.

By: Dr.Smart

Dr.Smart — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:46:51 +0000

I think you are looking at it in the complete wrong light.
Can you fit a kindle in your pocket/purse? no.
How about a Netbook? no.
a laptop? no.

“the majority will buy only books in the app store”
you cant honestly believe this.

So, because of a survey of what people SAY they are going to use this product for WAYYY before they put their hands on it, it is law?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:47:04 +0000

If they can get the iWork apps and other productivity apps working smoothly I can see this device being VERY nice for business users who don’t want to lug around a laptop all the time. We all know the media portion will work fine but it’s the business apps that are the key IMO – also it would be nice for us iPhone owners to be able to connect our Wi-Fi only iPad to the iPhone so we can get connectivity when on the go. The Palm Pre Plus can do it and I hope AT&T and Apple can sort this out even if it means paying a few more bucks for your iPhone plan but paying a full price for a 3G plan for this device makes no sense. See the big picture and don’t get greedy is my message to AT&T!!

By: Gonzobot

Gonzobot — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:39:58 +0000

I’ve never been sure as to why people are so concerned with games on the iPhone in the first place. Nobody seems to realize it, but the device is TERRIBLE for games! Every time I see a ten dollar version of a ten year old game, I cringe. Duke Nukem? They managed to take one of the most fun games EVAR, and reduce it to bullshit onscreen joystick touchscreen icons. You can’t see the three inch screen when you have two thumbs over two thirds of it…which makes it very very hard to play, being as you sort of need to see to shoot!

Why people keep doing it I will never understand. We’re how many years on now, and we have how many different versions of Flight Control? (Simple concept. Draw a line to a spot – except now we have DOZENS of them, all roughly the same quality as the average Newgrounds Flash game). I frankly do NOT see the point.

The Ipad COULD be used for gaming…just not the way you think, and unfortunately also not the way Apple will ever let you. Use it as a controller for your computer screen’s games! Tilt sensor, full multitouch screen, its own speakers, these are all interesting and innovative angles to pursue. But they never will, and you won’t be able to either, because if Steve Jobs doesn’t think you need it, then you don’t get to have it.

Get the Wepad instead. It will be larger, faster, stronger, CHEAPER, and USABLE. You can run Linux, or Android, and use the app stores or any other repository you choose. You can videochat, or use a USB stick for storage. Basically, its everything MISSING from the Ipad (and iphone, and ipod…), put together in the same package, being sold for a far less Mac Taxed price.

By: Lane3128

Lane3128 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:20:55 +0000

While I see the logic, the majority of original iphone users didn’t see a need for an app store. The device had a value by itself for a full year. People may not have the imagination to guess what kind of apps will be available but rest assured they will download tons. I myself will use this as a productivity device and there will be multiple apps I’m looking forward to including the iWork suite. People may see this as having limiting appeal but thankfully there are 50,000 devs out there that have more imagination. Don’t bet against it cause you’ll be disappointed.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:51:11 +0000

44% buy games? THATS ALMOST HALF. Thats half of all people buying apps also buy games. Sounds like someone is down playing it because they like pc/console gaming. One category to have 44% says it huge. Anyone saying gaming isnt gonna be big is either jealous or clueless. According to your list only %50 surf the web and %48 check mail and %38 for MUSIC. MORE PEOPLE BUY GAMES THAN MUSIC!!! GET A CLUE. this article is SO misinformed.

By: foolTeller

foolTeller — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:08:49 +0000

fool!! the games wont be the games your used to. they’ll be cool ones thaT you interact with differnelty. like a flight conntrol but on a massive canvas. fool. scrable. monopoly. chess. solitair. poker. all games. the gamers you’re talking about are call of duty fags. the campers probably.

fool.

By: GamingHorror

GamingHorror — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:06:09 +0000

I bet the reality will draw a different picture. Market analysis, polls, etc. they don’t mean much if people have to tell their intention for use of a device that hasn’t been released yet.

I’m sure *everyone* will surf the web and check e-mails on that device, so that is a no-brainer and everyone thinks of that. But get people to *admit* that they would be playing games on a $500+ device – hardly going to happen. Yet, they will, i’m sure of that.

And once we get past the pass-time games of the iPhone/iPod and make them visually appealing and playful on the large screen, people will come to love the iPad games and in no time they’ll be among the most downloaded Apps on the iPad App Store. I’m sure of that, too.

But i’m obviously biased being a game developer.

By: NickMMI

NickMMI — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:39:38 +0000

The bigger display is the key. It gives you a different way of interacting with the device, as compared to the iPhone. You need a different mindset to program for the iPad (as I have recently discovered), and it is going to take some time for ‘best practice’ to emerge (even though Apple has published extensive Human Interface Guidelines), and that will only happen once users get their hands on the device.

By: NookSurfer

NookSurfer — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:50:27 +0000

With the bigger display, the games and apps should give users a better experience compared to the ones on the iphone or ipod. I wonder if they’re going to start going 3D like Nintendo.