Appcelerator Kicks Off the Tablet Announcement Early
Yes Jeff Haynie is taking advantage of the Apple news, even before it happens, but I gotta appreciate that in a CEO. He’s the leader of Appcelerator, a startup that has more than 19,000 developers using its tool to create cross-platform applications including mobile apps on iPhone and Android platform and it, tonight, is announcing Apple Tablet support (more details will come out Thursday after Apple makes its announcement).
Here I interview Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, about that. How can they do that? Well, they are supporting the iPhone OS 4.0, which will have support for Apple’s new Tablet [Editor’s Note: We presume, based on common speculation. –mrh]. What is Appcelerator’s developer tool aimed at? Getting web developers to build first-rate native applications on all these platforms (it’s really a competitor of Adobe AIR). You can see demos of their current tool and API at their site.
In his survey they found that most of their developers see lots of opportunities for the Apple Tablet outside of the kinds of scenarios already discussed. We talk about these at length in the interview, but while gaming will be hot they see opportunities to develop new apps in entertainment, productivity/business, social networking, and education.
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