Chapter 1
What Makes a Killer iPad App
In This Chapter
Figuring out what makes an insanely great iPad application
Discovering the features of the iPad that can inspire you
Understanding Apple’s expectations for iPad applications
Making a plan for developing iPad software
Douglas Adams, in the bestseller The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (conceived in 1971 and published in 1979), introduced the idea of a handy travel guide that looked “rather like a largish electronic calculator,” with a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen “on which any one of a million ‘pages’ could be summoned at a moment’s notice.” It looked insanely complicated, and this is one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON’T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. According to Adams, this guide was published in this form because “if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.”
The iPad is a hitchhiker’s dream come true, and its users don’t even have any reason to panic. ...
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