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When Apple launched the iPhone and iPod Touch App Store, apps suddenly absolutely took off. Within months there were more gimmicky type apps that were pulling some serious cash. These simple apps – farting apps, joke apps, simple logging apps – they all had something in common. They were quick to develop, very straight forward, could probably have been developed in a number of days (or weeks at most) and appealed to the masses because of their novelty.

The iPad is going to be no different. If you’re on the fence about developing something for the iPad, now is the time to jump in, head first and get your novelty idea out there. Believe it when I say that those novelty apps are going to go like hotcakes when the iPad first comes out – especially those that are made for the iPad (versus those that are made for the iPhone and would then have lower resolution and wouldn’t use the new iPad features).

But if you’re not a developer, there is still hope. Appcelerator, the company behind the Titanium mobile app development suite has announced support for the iPad. The news release can be found here, but a few quotes:

Appcelerator will begin allowing developers to create iPad applications in an upcoming Titanium beta release in February. Developers can download Titanium today from www.appcelerator.com.

In demonstrating its support for the new iPad, Appcelerator said that it had successfully tested Titanium’s comprehensive test suite application “Kitchen Sink” on the iPad. In a statement via Twitter on Wednesday, Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, tweeted “Apple iPad simulator running Appcelerator Titanium Kitchen Sink 0.9

With just some html and javascript knowledge, you can be off to the races with iPhone development and, fingers crossed, soon iPad development and you can get your ideas out there into the app store as soon as possible.

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