随着平板电脑用户的增加，所谓的app经济不如说是iPad经济。这是Research2guidance提供的一份报告中所提及的。Research2guidance是一家专门研究移动app的发展对全球消费者和开发者的影响。
根据资讯公司的调查显示，iPad用户或者是其他平板电脑用户，比如谷歌的安卓系统的用户，现在已经占移动app消费的8.6%。Research2guidance称，截止到2013年，平板电脑的用户将会增长150%，而移动app的使用者也将随之增加。
软件开发人员已经在试着开发更多适合平板电脑的游戏和工具。报告称，仅2011年苹果的App store中，专为iPad设计的app就上涨了180%。2012年3月份，苹果表示，苹果的app store中还有550000个app是为iPhone准备的，本地的iPad则有170000款app。
Research2guidance表示，随着平板电脑用户成为越来越大的app下载用户群，他们的app行为以及偏爱会对app市场产生越来越重要的影响，而这个观点已经在app的增长数量和应用商店中的下载数量中得到了证实。
报告中也指出办公平板电脑也在不断升级调整，尤其是iPad。随着公司越来越依赖平板电脑，那么适应企业平板电脑的app也将会越来越多。
在今天的另一份报告中，IDC表示，第一季度世界平板电脑的出货量比去年增长了两倍，达到了1740万台，去年则为790万台。但去年第四季度的出货量则达到了2820万台，这很大一部分是节日消费的刺激。该研究所表示，iPad在平板市场中的份额占到了68%。
The so-called app economy could become more of an iPad economy, as the number of tablet users grows. That’s the takeaway from a report by Research2guidance, which looked at what the worldwide growth in mobile apps could mean for consumers and developers.
Owners of the iPad and other tablets, such as those running on Google’s Android, now make up 8.6 percent of consumers using mobile apps, according to the consulting firm. That’s likely to expand as the number of tablet users is forecast to grow more than 150 percent by 2013, Research2guidance said.
Developers are already churning out more games and productivity tools designed with the tablets in mind. In 2011, the number of apps in the Apple App Store for iPad rose 180 percent, the report said. In March of this year, Apple said its App Store had more than 550,000 apps for its mobile devices, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available.
“As tablet users become a larger and larger app downloading segment, their app behavior and preferences will have an increasing influence on the app market — illustrated already in the growth in the number of apps and stores devoted to them,” Research2guidance said.
The report also pointed out the growing adoption of tablets, especially the iPad, in the workplace. As the number of companies that rely on these devices grows, so too will the number of apps being developed for enterprise tablet users.
In a separate report today, IDC said total worldwide tablet shipments more than doubled to 17.4 million units in the first quarter, from 7.9 million units a year earlier. That followed a record 28.2 million units in the fourth quarter, lifted by holiday sales. The iPad increased its dominating share of the tablet market to 68 percent, the research firm said.
