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iPad Apps Begin to Go Live in App Store
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This is truly quite an exciting time - I have already begun to receive many emails and tweets about different app companies and their iPad plans - the next few months will be really really fun....
YES!
I paid £17.99 for LogMeIn Ignition when it came out on the iPhone. I just noticed that the same app now supports iPad! Fantastic! I was going to get a VNC app for the iPad, and I was a bit gutted that I might have to get a new one. Excellent! Very impressed.
why is this worth $20 more than winadmin? Wondering.
Yup. When a universal app is created, it makes a copy of the entire version, so you can redesign for the iPad. Which increases the size of the application. So graphic heavy games are separated instead of combined. So unless people want an lose all your space on your iPhone and iPod Touch, they better stop bitching.
Received a free update for iSSH (iPhone) that includes iPad support with additional features on iPad. This will be a handy app on the iPad, good to see it does not need to be bought again 
Received a free update for iSSH (iPhone) that includes iPad support with additional features on iPad. This will be a handy app on the iPad, good to see it does not need to be bought again
A whole bunch of those remote desktop clients have been upgraded to support iPad. Now I can talk my boss into buying the iPad for me.
You don't want a big universal app taking up space on your iPhone since you only plan to use the app on the iPad? Then don't put the app on the iPhone. iTunes allows you to select which movies, tv shows, music, podcasts and even apps sync to the iPhone and which don't. Just because you have an app in your library doesn't mean you have to sync it to the iPhone.
Forgive my ignorance but how have you managed to set up an account in the USA as well as the UK? There are some apps that are not available in the UK which I would really like.
make sure you are in the US store, then proceed with these steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534
I'm just experimenting now. I followed a link to see the Command & Conquer game in the App Store and it said it's only available for US customers right now, and asked if I'd like to change store. Now that I'm viewing the US store, I can see new apps and I THINK I can even purchase them, but I need to create a new account. I'm assuming that this involves using a US address and card etc which I cannot do (without help). But I'm curious to know if it would work though. I mean, if I have two accounts, one for UK and one for US store, and I can use apps from either on my iPad, that would be excellent. The abc player especially!
Can anyone confirm if this works or not in the UK? When creating a new account I saw this:
"Purchases or rentals (as applicable) from the iTunes Store are available to you only in the United States, it's territories, and possessions, and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the iTunes Store from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance."
Also for those who have done it, I take it I can purchase from US store, then purchase other things from UK store, and have them all available in library and all able to sync to devices at the same time?
"Purchases or rentals (as applicable) from the iTunes Store are available to you only in the United States, it's territories, and possessions, and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the iTunes Store from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance."
Also for those who have done it, I take it I can purchase from US store, then purchase other things from UK store, and have them all available in library and all able to sync to devices at the same time?
I have my main Canadian account, a US account and a UK account (these two don't have a credit card associated with them so I can only download free apps). All of the apps downloaded go into my library and get synced to both my iPhone and iPod Touch without a problem. You have to sign in to each account individually to check for updates though.
Thanks, that's what I was hoping. Getting abc Player and iBooks is quite important to me when the iPad releases here in the UK.
Only problem is finding someone in the US to help me out. I think there's an incentive for someone in the US to help a UK user out, because they will also get the purchased apps themselves that they can then use. Example: UK customer gives money so that US customer can purchase an app for them. Then they both get it.
Only problem is finding someone in the US to help me out. I think there's an incentive for someone in the US to help a UK user out, because they will also get the purchased apps themselves that they can then use. Example: UK customer gives money so that US customer can purchase an app for them. Then they both get it.
I'm pretty sure sharing paid apps is piracy
. Plus, ABC Player and Hulu are probably region restricted like Pandora, you have to be in the US to watch the content.What I did was set up an account on the iTunes US Store which you can do without a credit card by making sure you are logged out of any existing iTunes store accounts.
Then switch to the iTunes US store and find a free app click to download the free app and it will then ask you to sign in click the create account option. You will then be presented with the standard signup screen when it asks for a payment method select None (you will only see none if you selected a free app). You will need to enter a US address though - I just entered the Bundlebox one that my iPad is being sent to. This will then create an account and allow you to download free apps from the store.
If you want paid apps what I did was buy an iTunes US giftcard off eBay you can then apply that to your account without requiring a credit card to be attached. Just remember they add tax onto the prices shown in the iTunes store, I bought $30 of vouchers thinking that would be enough to download the 3 iWork apps but a small amount of tax was charged as well so I didn't have enough (I was used to the UK what you see is what you pay).
Some of the developers are updating their apps to fully support iPad and have released free updates already I have 6 apps that are categorized as "For iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch" in my iTunes Apps folder, some of them were paid apps for which I didn't have to pay again/more for this added functionality!
The point is, I will be able to use EVERY app I have already whether or not the developer updates their app and if they want to charge or not for such an update.
I did this a few minutes ago and have now downloaded my first free app from the US store. It is Dragon Dictation which I have wanted ever since it was first advertised. I just cannot understand why this was not more widely available. Thanks for the advice.
I notice with all the coverage and rumors, we haven't heard a peep about the release date for the 3G version of the iPad. "Late April" No rumors on a date?
As an iPhone developer who made his app universal, it's true, those apps get bigger, but not by much. In my universal app, TrackinU, which puts tweets on a map and shows the route from tweet to tweet, at least 95% of the code is the same even though there are significant differences in the look of things. It's not so much changes in functionality, but the way the functions are presented on screen (compare iPhone and iPad screen shots to see) and that is mostly system code.
But you know what made the app get 200K bigger? The startup screens! Those splash screens that zoom in that you see for a few seconds as the app starts. I had to add two 1024x768 startup images (one for landscape mode, one for portrait) and that's almost all the added size! It is wasted space on the iPhone. But you've got gigs of storage on the thing, right? Truth be told, most startup screens aren't so many K, but they can be, if the image is complex. My app features maps, so the startup screens show a nice image of Long Island, and this doesn't compress as much as a flat image.
I think this is something people are missing when they complain about the developers creating new iPad-only paid apps. A basic app gets a bit bigger when it goes universal. But a large 3D game will become MUCH larger when it goes Universal. An iPad-only app stops the iPhone version from becoming too massive.
On the other hand, you only have to pay for a universal version once. If you have both an iPhone and iPad, you have to pay for it twice if you want it on both devices.
Well, that isn't entirely true. For example, I just saw that the logmein ignition app for the iphone was updated, FREE to download for owners of the iphone app. I simply downloaded it to my itunes and will sync it ONLY with the ipad when I get it tomorrow. So, one I don't have to pay for both apps and two I don't have to have the upgraded one YET at least on the iphone