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App-o-plexy: Making an app; how hard can it be?

It’s coming up on one year since we jumped into the speech therapy app development business. It seems like forever and a short time ago that we decided we could take our years of speech-language experience and convert it into an app for the iPad. After all, how hard could it be? Well, like a lot of journeys this one was easy to start and required discipline and persistence to complete.

Speech therapy apps: How do you find them?

We’re starting to see more iPads in the waiting room of our clinic, and as soon as moms (dads, too sometimes) find out we’re working on a new speech therapy app they all ask the same thing, “What apps do you recommend?”

This is not really surprising, because the Apple App Store offers more than 65,000 apps specifically for the iPad, with more and more arriving every day. There are nearly 60 speech therapy apps listed in the App Store. Android Market comes up with 23 speech therapy apps, and the list will only keep growing.

What's the best approach for develolping new apps for the iPad?

What's the best way to develop new apps for speech-language pathologists using the iPad? When we first started designing Minimal Pairs, we started with a blank sheet. Oh sure, we looked at other apps others had done, but there were very few by mid-2010. What do you think? is it better to start from scratch or should developer adapt what already exists in the traditional media?

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