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The road gladdens the obsessed ghost.

The Apple / Google race continues, while everyone else struggles to catch up.

Google will introduce netbooks later this year, indicating that 2010 will be a race for cross-platform supremacy.

Developers are also planning to build applications unique to the Apple iPad device.  In particular, the survey found that developers are favoring social networking, entertainment, and even productivity applications over games

Tablet skeptics frequently mention that the form factor (lack of keyboard, redundancy with a laptop, etc) represents a limiting factor for the device.  What this indicates is that we may see developers putting the combination of new features together to create novel new applications.  With multitasking and wireless networking will come an explosion in messaging apps that break free of the iPhone’s prior limitations of a single application only being able to run in the fore ground.  Multi-touch gestures and a new native iPad interface will give rise to new ways to share and interact with media or learning applications.  Expect immediate and massive experimentation with these new capabilities to create more engaging, tactile, and connected experiences that sit between the extended use case of desktop/laptop applications and the immediate gratification use case of mobile.

Although the iPad will offer its own unique functionality, developers are already looking into potential cross-sell / bundle opportunities between iPhone and iPad applications.  Over 85% of respondents said they would discount or give away a iPad version of their app (or vice-versa) with an iPhone app sale