Apple iTunes App Store: Now Accepting iPad Apps!
An email has been sent out to developers telling them Apple is now accepting application submissions for the iPad App Store — a special category of the existing iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. 9to5Mac has the text:
iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today. Submit your iPad app now for an initial review by the App Review Team and receive feedback on its readiness for the grand opening. Submit Your App by March 27.
Build and test your iPad app using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 available on the iPhone Dev Center. Only iPad apps built with iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 will be accepted for this initial review.
Upload your distribution signed app through iTunes Connect by Saturday, March 27, 5pm PDT.
The App Review Team will review your app on iPad and email you details about the readiness of your app.
You will also receive additional information about submitting your app for final review before iPad ships.
Only apps submitted for the initial review will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
As TUAW points out, however, there’s some risk involved:
the simulator uses many Macintosh frameworks and libraries, offering features that are not actually present on the iPhone. Applications that appear to be completely operational and fully debugged on the simulator may flake out or crash on the device itself. You simply cannot fully debug any program solely by using the simulator and be assured that the software will run bug-free on the iPhone. Here at TUAW central, we’re assuming (or at least hoping) that Apple will be testing device builds on real devices.
+1 to that. It would no doubt annoy users not to have iPad-specific apps available on April 3. I would annoy them more if those apps crash due to never being tested on, you know, the actual iPad hardware they’re supposed to run on…
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Gruber calls it “a little nutty” that most of these submitted apps will never have been run on a physical device except maybe during App Store review before launch, and it is hard to disagree.
Those developers who had a device tethered to a desk in a room with the blinds drawn and black helicopters flying outside are going to have a HUGE advantage over those who did not. A large number of apps will be fine, of course, but I just hope the App Store is able to cope with a flood of bugfix (and UI-fix) point releases as people finally get to see their work on actual devices.
So, are f@rts going to be much bigger now?
Not only bigger, but magical
Im tired of hearing about ipad, I dont get whats so magical about it.
I am looking forward to having ipad specific apps on day one. I sure won’t be using any iPhone apps via pixel doubling on the ipad.
@yarrah perhaps u need a itampon for your rag
Wired did a huge spread on the iPad and the magic of the future direction of all computing. If you like reading what might be possible, take a read. Some are anti iPad, but most are it’s cool, due to the interface being different. Like more natural. I suspect being able to use it with a VNC to my two 23″ monitors on my PC is quite attractive. I get flash, the works, and I get to use it while at work, home, on the bus, or at the beach. So is that magical? I am going have 1980X1080 X 2 monitors right out of the bag, assuming Ignition or Jaadu works on the iPad. its going to be a rough start, but won’t be as bad as it could be. Apple has not flopped in a while, and I don’t think this one is going to be the one that flopped. Even with out having the device to test software one. I look at the other side. The first on the market with a limited number of apps, gets most of the early sales, and every iPad owner is going to buy a few frivolous apps just to show they have an iPad to the person next to them. So, the bonus is income for the developers, even if they have to immediately start submitting bug fixes. So magical? yes. I say yes. It’s going to be magical.
@fastlane
They are now going to be in HD.
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