Thunderous Boom in a Perfect Storm of iPad Apps

Here's one in the eye for iPad doubters: According to Flurry's analytical app-developer tracking skills, January saw the single biggest peak in developer activity ever registered in its system. It's the iPad.

Flurry's tracking code is embedded into iPhone apps by developers, so while it's not a completely fool-proof measure of how much developer excitement there is about a device, but it's a damn good indicator. Throughout the second half of 2009 the app development rate for the iPhone had...