Don’t expect a deluge of new apps like the one that flooded the iPhone App Store in 2008 “It’s going to be a slow burn,” says Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, speaking about the arrival of original apps for the iPad tablet computer that goes on sale this Saturday.
Decrem has a unique perspective on such things. He’s co-creator of the Tap Tap music game, one of the thousands of applications that flooded Apple’s (AAPL) newly-opened App Store in the summer of 2008. He was lucky; within a month, more than a million people had downloaded his game. By December it was the most popular free app of the year. It now generates in-app sales of nearly $1 million a month.
Most developers, by contrast, have lost money writing for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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