Think selling over 2 million copies of Flight Control, and developing the 5+ million downloaded Real Racing GTI for the iPhone/iPod Touch gives you any special treatment regarding iPad development from Apple? Think again!
Firemint, the Melbourne developer of those highly awarded and popular games, will be not be given any special help from Apple as they hammer out Flight Control HD designed specifically for the iPad. Currently, Apple have provided developers with a software emulator to develop iPad applications with, however, nothing beats refining and fine tuning the final application on the actual hardware itself.
While the launch date for the iPad is just over a week away in the U.S, Australian and New Zealand iPad application developers are left high and dry and will have to wait another entire month on top of that when it is launched locally to get their apps tested on the hardware.
thenextweb.com reports that Firemint will be taking a rather low-tech solution in solving that issue, and it's one that you wouldn't expect to see from such a top tiered App-store developer. From Thennextweb.com...
According to Community Manager Alexandra Peters, they plan to get a friend in the US to buy a bunch of iPad’s when they drop and FedEx them to Australia.A simple solution, no doubt, but astonishing in my mind, that it’s come to that.
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"According to Community Manager Alexandra Peters, they plan to get a friend in the US to buy a bunch of iPad’s when they drop and FedEx them to Australia."
"A simple solution, no doubt, but astonishing in my mind, that it’s come to that."
Seriously dude? Astonishing? Hardly. This is the sort of thing we have to put up with all the time. If it's not release date overlap it's price point.
Not news.