Titanium to Enable Web Developers to Build Fully Native iPad Apps Starting in February

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 29, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced today that nearly 1,000 new developers signed up after the company announced that its flagship cross-platform product, Appcelerator Titanium™, would support Apple’s iPad starting in February. Titanium enables web developers to use industry-standard, open-source Web technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS to quickly build rich, fully native applications that run on the iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Macintosh, and Linux platforms from a single code base.

Appcelerator will begin allowing developers to create iPad applications in an upcoming Titanium beta release in February. Developers can download Titanium today from www.appcelerator.com.

In demonstrating its support for the new iPad, Appcelerator said that it had successfully tested Titanium’s comprehensive test suite application “Kitchen Sink” on the iPad. In a statement via Twitter on Wednesday, Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, tweeted “Apple iPad simulator running Appcelerator Titanium Kitchen Sink 0.9 http://bit.ly/9R3VaR.” The company anticipates that Titanium-built iPhone applications will be compatible with Apple’s iPad out of the box.

Although Apple (and Appcelerator) will support direct application porting from the iPhone to the iPad, Appcelerator’s recently released report, The iPad App Wave, shows that developers are looking forward to the unique features of the device. For example this would include:

• Multi-touch gestures and networking that will give rise to new ways to share and interact with media or learning applications.
• Business applications that will benefit from better ways to view and analyze data on the go.
• Social networking applications that will tie location together with richer communication interfaces.

More insight and analysis of developer opinions can be viewed in the full report, available here: www.appcelerator.com/tabletappwave.

“Successful iPad applications that really stand apart will take advantage of the new user interface and other native features that make the device distinct from the iPhone and Mac,” noted Haynie. “Applications in the media, entertainment, business, social networking, and education spaces will particularly benefit from the iPad’s enhanced user experience capabilities, and we plan to bundle all of that native functionality into Titanium.”

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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New Report Finds 90% of Developers Plan to Build an Apple Tablet App within the Year

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 26, 2010 – Appcelerator^®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop – and now Apple Tablet applications – using web technologies, announced findings of a new poll taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for the Apple Tablet. Taken last week from a pool of 18,000 of Appcelerator’s application developers, 554 developers weighed in with responses about their plans, interests and preferences around Apple’s forthcoming Tablet.

Appcelerator also announced today that its flagship cross-platform product, Appcelerator Titanium™, would support the new Apple Tablet.  Titanium enables web developers to use industry-standard, open-source Web technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS to quickly build rich, fully native applications that run on the iPhone, Android, Apple Tablet, PC, Macintosh, Linux platforms from a single code base.

The Tablet App Wave

Appcelerator published its survey findings today in a report titled, “The Tablet App Wave: How Apple Tablet Developers Will Radically Transform Computing.” The full report is available for viewing, reprint, and redistribution at: www.appcelerator.com/tabletappwave

Most notably, one key finding reveals that developers are already gearing up to build novel applications en masse for this new device.  Other survey highlights include:

• 90% of respondents say they plan to build a Tablet application over the coming year.
• Apple Tablet has vaulted into 3^rd place right behind iPhone and Android as a preferred development platform…well ahead of Blackberry, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.
• Developers see bigger opportunities than gaming apps and are gearing up to develop new apps in the areas of entertainment, productivity/business, social networking, and education.
• Developers plan to make the most of the Tablet’s rumored features to build apps in the above categories.  They plan to incorporate the following anticipated features: multi-touch gestures, the tablet’s unique user interface, multi-tasking (running multiple applications at once), and networking (eg: wireless/wi-fi).
• Developers anticipate being able to offer discounts or special promotions for applications developed for both the iPhone and Apple Tablet platforms.

Co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie noted, “We believe these findings are particularly relevant and insightful because Appcelerator developers uniquely represent a broad spectrum of backgrounds.  There is balanced representation from iPhone and Android developers on the mobile side and PC, Mac, and Linux developers on the desktop side.  We have a global audience that splits 52 percent in North America, 33 percent in Europe and 15 percent throughout the rest of the world.  As well, individual developers represent 46 percent of respondents, while 54 percent work in businesses.”

With its planned support for the Apple Tablet, Appcelerator will enable its rapidly growing web developer base to build exciting new applications out-of-the-gate that take advantage of the Tablet’s brand new unique form factors, features, and functionality on the same code base as other mobile and desktop platforms supported by Appcelerator.  Significantly, Appcelerator will be the first cross-platform solution to enable iPhone, Macintosh OS X, and now Apple Tablet application development using web technologies.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and tablet applications.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Carmen Hughes
Ignite PR
carmen@ignitepr.com
Tel: 650.227.3280 ext. 1
Cell: 650.576.6444