iPad

App Annie posted screenshots of the iTunes iPad App store today – there are three screenshots including Home Page (below, including sections New and Neoteworthy | What’s Hot).

New and Noteworthy:

1. Awesome Note (+Todo), Productivity
2. Coach K, Games
3. Nick Kid’s Choice Awards, Entertainment
4. The Masters Golf Tournament, Sports
5. Pregnancy Tracker From What to Expect, Healthcare and Fitness
6. HippoRemote Pro, Productivity

What’s Hot

1. Everyday Looper, Music
2. Happy Hours, Travel
3. StarMaker, Music
4. American Idol: The Game, Games
5. Tilt to Live, Games
6. Secrets of Success, Business

Check out Top Free and Top Grossing lists and screenshots as well..

Tablets have been around for quite a while yet many are still unclear what the ultimate use case for the device is. At this point in time I don’t think anyone has a certain answer and things may shape (and probably will) in several directions.

Puzzled by this, I went back to the flurry.com’s January analytics post that took a look at different types of apps that Apple was testing on a (at that time) unknown device. While data is quite conclusive (Go Gaming!) we have to take the numbers with a grain of salt as they are probably excluding a good chunk of iBooks testing (iBooks are not tracked via flurry). To sum it up – Apple is seeing the device as a strong gaming platform with entertainment and social networking capabilities.

I’ll come back to this post once they sell 500k devices and we’ll check if the assumptions turned out to be true (Apple Touch initially targeted music fans – yet, the platform turned out into a gaming gem while music features turned out to be just a sideshow).

About Flurry (links above):

Flurry offers cutting-edge analytics, deployment and monetization tools for mobile application developers. Its services platform is offered free to application developers allowing them to better save money, increase revenues and improve their products. Flurry’s platform is built by developers for developers, based on its pioneering experience as one the first developers to build, deploy and market direct-to-consumer applications. Flurry is venture-backed and is based in San Francisco.

Data (Apple Tested iPad Apps – by App category – Oct ‘09 to Jan ‘10: