Porting Existing iPhone Apps to iPad?

Are you going to port your existing iPhone/iPod Touch apps to iPad?

As iPad is out, iPhone developers should think about what iPad means to us.

I was reading an interesting post from Games From Within called Figuring Out The iPad, it made some great points from comparing iPad with iPhone/iPod Touch. The author Noel is NOT going to port his existing iPhone/iPod Touch game to the iPad.

Differences: iPad vs. iPhone/iPod Touch

• How frequently people use it: while people tend to use iPhone/iPod Touch app for short period, few seconds or minutes during the day, the iPad encourages longer sessions, once or twice a day.
• Target demographic: iPod Touch is spreading on the younger demographic of middle and elementary school; the iPad will appeal mostly to people in 30s and older.
• Physical size: iPad is large, and you are not going to keep it in pocket.

I also don’t think porting existing iPhone/iPod Touch apps to iPad is the right way to go. iPad will be a better device for reading eBooks, playing turn-based board games, painting, web browsing…etc.

A common mistake developers make when trying to bring an application to another platform is trying to bring down the whole application verbatim and shoehorn it into a device. This never works satisfactorily because of the usage differences between iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch.

Think differently.

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