But I don’t think iPad apps are ever going to run on the Mac as-is, without any change or adaptation to account for the very different input methods.
And I do think Apple sees the upcoming Mac App Store as an opportunity for iOS developers who’ve never written apps for the Mac to start. It’s the hottest platform in the world, period. Not just Apple’s developer mojo, but the industry’s. There’s no doubt that iOS is where the developer mojo is. (It’s not - that event is a Game Center summit.) Rene Ritchie even wonders if that’s what’s going on this week at the private iOS developer meeting in Cupertino. Write iPad software for an iPad with a keyboard. In other words, they’re teaching the developers, privately, how to Will be the actual software that runs on the iPad and iPhone. The software we will buy from the Mac version of the App Store Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X Tuesday, 2 November 2010
