Apple’s iPad tablet PC may be causing a spike in third-party developers building apps for the iPhone OS, according to mobile analytics company Flurry, although the iPhone and Android appear evenly matched in terms of user retention, session frequency and session lengths for their respective applications. Apple has predicted that some 140,000 applications will be available for the iPad upon the device’s release in two months, and is pushing the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta into the developer ecosystem to encourage further building of new programs.
– The upcoming release of Apples iPad tablet PC may be linked to a spike in
third-party developers building apps for the iPhone OS, according to
mobile analytics company Flurry, even as Apple and Google continue to
mirror each other with regard to user retention, session frequency and session
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