iPhone-to-iPad development: How’s the timing going to work out?
Either I’m missing something, the initial iPad apps are going to suck, or we haven’t yet been told that iPad-native apps won’t be available for some period of time after the iPad’s launch.
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The problem, of course, is that before day one, we won’t have iPads ourselves for development and testing. … [I]f we want our apps to be in the store at its launch, we have to do the majority of development without ever running our code on a real iPad (or even having used one).
This isn’t the only hurdle: Apple isn’t actually accepting iPad apps for review just yet. They’ll announce that at some (unknown) point in the future. This also makes it difficult for companies which want to submit something early to see if the reviewers will pull the ‘duplicates existing functionality’ card.
