iPad App Development Showing a Large Spike According to Flurry

Every since the unveiling of the new iPad on January 27th app development has spiked 185 percent according to analytics company Flurry. Here is the breakdown of app development by category; on-line-centric companies developed 22 percent of the the iPhone apps, next companies that were founded to specifically create iPhone apps came in at 20 percent. Gaming companies make up about 19 percent of the apps and your traditional media and bricks-and-mortar companies closely following at 17 percent each. On the lower end, mobile-centric companies came in at 5 percent.

Peter Farago, vice president of marketing for Flurry, wrote a post on the 15th of this month on the company’s official blog.; “We continue to attribute this growth to excitement generated by the impending launch of iPad … a large portion of the applications we are seeing are custom version of existing applications tailors for the iPad.”

[PCmag]