Live chat tomorrow: Application Development for the (mythical) Apple Tablet

From a developer's point of view, what do these rumors mean? Is it enough to assume that App Store products will "just work" out of the box on a new device class? Will adherence to Apple's resolution independence design principles allow well-built iPhone applications to adapt to new window sizes? Or are there greater concerns of memory, processor, and the overall user experience that need to be taken into account?

On Friday, TUAW will chat with Craig Hockenberry and Daniel Jalkut. Hockenberry is the senior software engineer for the Iconfactory, a software and design house that ships both Macintosh and iPhone products. Jalkut, formerly of Apple, is the founder of Red Sweater Software (aka the "MarsEdit" people). Both Hockenberry and Jalkut bring multi-platform Apple development expertise to the table for our discussion of possible hardware directions and how developers can proactively prepare their place in a new market.

Please join us at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern for this live chat. There's a reminder widget in the continuation of this post.

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Bertil Holmberg

A 10 inch tablet would be impractically large, heavy, fragile, and much too expensive to compete with netbooks.

Another aspect no one seems to consider is bandwidth. With a screen almost ten times larger than an iPhone, the behemoth would only work with WiFi (or cable). Forget the flaky AT&T 3G and consider 4G instead. But that places the large tablet in a 2012 time frame, at the earliest, not next year. So, the type of online use shown in the Sports Illustrated demo is something you can only dream of.

December 18 2009 at 8:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kmcgrady90

I don't think any iPhone apps will work out of the box on a 10 inch tablet. The reason being images. Devs make images used in the app as low res as possible to save memory. So if the apps are blown up on a 10 inch screen the images will be grainy (I know this is all just speculation regarding a tablet but I've seen lots of sites suggesting the apps will just work when this is not the case).

December 18 2009 at 12:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ereaderuniverse

Has Apple been beaten to the punch by this?:
http://www.ereaderuniverse.com/page/entourage-edge

December 17 2009 at 10:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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No, sir, they have not been beaten, to the punch or anything else, by that 1989 clamshell thickbook.

December 18 2009 at 10:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bork

this live chat topic is lame ass.

December 17 2009 at 9:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

I'm not usually snarky, and I apologize if I come off like that, but I'm so and confused.

There's a live chat being held for how to program for a device that may or may not even exist?

December 17 2009 at 6:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank.lowney

So, with a 10" diagonal screen and iPhone DPI, what would the screen dimensions be in pixels? Basically, what kind of real estate are we talking about.

December 17 2009 at 6:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Poltras

Just so we can be clear on something: aren't rumours supposed to be NOT hard facts?

December 17 2009 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply