SHAUNA NICHOLSON: DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGIST

We think it’s going to be another gold rush for devs. And of course every iPad comes with the app store on it. -Apple

You already know news headlines continue reporting on iPhone applications daily. Perhaps even your own company has developed an app:

• Merging iPhone and Business? There is an App for That
• Trapped man in Haiti saved by iPhone app
• Las Vegas Market launches iPhone app
• LendingTree’s First-Ever iPhone App Puts Competing Mortgage Quotes in the Palm of Your Hand

If you’re a company that has even flirted with the idea of creating an iPhone application, you should see opportunity pouring here. The Apple tablet, iPad, creates opportunity to create business-friendly applications like never before. Even if you’re one of the many calling this a “big iPod,” (and you may be right, to an extent) the sheer size completely re-creates the user experience. Size alone will re-define the way applications are downloaded, used, and made profitable.

Words of advice: Get moving. Even if you missed the first wave of opportunity, you can seize this one. Today.  Get started

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iPad Specs on Mashable

Apple Stock Data

EDIT:
Here’s another easy example: Why newspapers need to think of themselves as apps to survive
The article reports “Platform + apps = news consumption. Remember that formula.” Though, I would argue a better formula is: Platform + Apps = Information Consumption.