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.

The Tablet App Wave

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 (e.g.: 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 are 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 40 percent in the U.S. and 60 percent outside the U.S. as well as near-equal representation of business and individual developers.”

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.

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