App developers are wasting no time on rolling out applications for the iPad, surpassing 10,000 barely two months after its release.
The rate with which the number of iPad apps is growing is staggering. Just last Monday Steve Jobs announced at the iPhone 4 launch that the number was over 8,500, and a mere five days later the total has flown past the 10,000 mark. At the end of April the number stood at just over 5,000 meaning that the number of apps just about doubled in six weeks.
With more than two million iPads already sold, it isn’t all that surprising that developers are flocking to the device, but the same problem that has plagued iPhone developers is sure to hit the iPad now: getting lost in the shuffle. As the number of iPhone apps has grown, it has become harder and harder for an iPhone app to become a break out hit as consumers don’t want to browse through pages and pages of apps.
While Apple is always eager to crow about the number of apps, something is going to have to be done about making them easier to explore or else developers may just get burned out on being lost in the shuffle.
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