Appcelerator Survey Reveals Apple Tablet Vaulting into 3rd Place Behind iPhone and Android in Developers’ Roadmap

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 3rd 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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